n. (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards"

n. (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

n. soft fine feathers

n. a computer system failing because of an error in hardware or software

v. bring down or defeat (an opponent)

v. cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down"

v. lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"

v. become slow or slower; "Production slowed"

v. eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

v. shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"

v. cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"

v. drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"

adv. away from a more northerly place: "They came down for the wedding"

adv. in music; "Play this lento, please"

adv. in the direction of: "He hit the ball down the line"

adv. "Don't fall down"

adj. (inefficient)

adj. not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; "a slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news"; "slow but steady growth"

adj. at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz"

adj. with less than usual speed or velocity

adj. shut; "the shades were down"

adj. being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth"

adj. being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"

adj. behind schedule; "was behindhand with the rent"

adj. lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"

adj. becoming progressively lower; "the down trend in the real estate market"

adj. being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth"

adj. understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down"

adj. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"

adj. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"

adj. low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

v. stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!"

v. make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

v. form a curve; "The stick does not bend"

v. give dinner to; host for dinner; "I'm wining and dining my friends"

v. have supper; eat dinner; "We often dine with friends in this restaurant"

v. pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!"

v. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

v. give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"

v. be sustained by; "He fed on the great ideas of her mentor"

v. gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"

v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream"

v. drink greedily or as if with great thirst; "The boys guzzled the cheap vodka"

v. pay out; "spend money"

v. spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

v. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"

v. make a trip for pleasure

v. fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it"

adj. after the expected or usual time; delayed; "a belated birthday card"; "I'm late for the plane"; "the train is late"; "tardy children are sent to the principal"; "always tardy in making dental appointments"

adj. heavy and dull and stupid

adj. not using intelligence

adj. insanely irresponsible; "an idiotic idea"

adj. mentally deficient

adj. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"

adj. relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development; "providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded"

adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail"

adj. lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety

adj. primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"

adj. being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time; "late evening"; "late 18th century"; "a late movie"; "took a late flight"; "had a late breakfast"

adj. caused to be slower or later; "the delayed plane finally arrived"

adj. marked by intense physical force: "a big wind"; "a violent squall"; "heavy seas"; "high winds"

adj. brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"

adj. having component parts closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds"; "a thick forest"; "thick hair"

adj. hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"

adj. lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety

adj. lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"

adj. mentally deficient

adj. relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development; "providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded"

adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail"

adj. not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; "a slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news"; "slow but steady growth"

adj. not using intelligence

adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"

adj. retarded in intellectual development

adj. showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom; "an unwise investor is soon impoverished"

adj. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"

adj. generalized feeling of distress

adj. without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

adj. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens

adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

adj. "a hopeless attempt"

adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

adj. made less hopeful or enthusiastic; "desperate demoralized people looking for work"; "felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem"; "the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest"

adj. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"

adj. impossible to repair, rectify, or amend; "irreparable harm"; "an irreparable mistake"; "irreparable damages"

adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"

adv. to a lower place

adv. "See under for further discussion"

v. cause to run; "pour water over the floor"

adj. inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power"

adj. caused to be slower or later; "the delayed plane finally arrived"

adj. proceeding in small stages; "a gradual increase in prices"

adj. relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste; "people strolling about in an unhurried way"; "an unhurried walk"; "spoke in a calm and unhurried voice"

adj. with care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed"

adj. not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace"

adj. coming down or downward

adj. literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow"

adj. after the expected or usual time; delayed; "a belated birthday card"; "I'm late for the plane"; "the train is late"; "tardy children are sent to the principal"; "always tardy in making dental appointments"

adj. inclined to waste time and lag behind

adj. just before a deadline; at the last minute; "last-minute arrangements"

adj. lowered in value; "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency"

adj. not intense; "low-level radiation"

adj. well below normal (especially in price)

adj. unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"

adj. not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"

adj. without difficulties or problems; "a clean test flight"

adj. perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities; "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness"; "a consummate performance"

adj. free from error; "an errorless baseball game"

adj. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"

adj. without fault or error; "faultless logic"; "speaks impeccable French"; "timing and technique were immaculate"; "an immaculate record"

adj. without a flaw; "a flawless gemstone"

adj. conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal

adj. exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence

adj. excellent and delightful in all respects; "an idyllic spot for a picnic"

adj. as if new; "in mint condition"

adj. being precise with regard to a prescribed or specified criterion; "his guess was on the nose"; "the prediction for snow was right on the button"

adj. capable of becoming or being made perfect

adj. more than perfect; "he spoke with pluperfect precision"

adj. sloping down rather steeply

adj. going down by steps

adj. going or coming down

adj. having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

adj. used informally

adj. heavy and dull and stupid

adj. (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality

adj. mentally sluggish

adj. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment

adj. utterly cast down

adj. brought low in spirit; "left us fatigued and deflated spiritually"

adj. reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"

adj. marked by dejection from being alone; "felt sad and lonely"; "the loneliest night of the week"; "lonesome when her husband is away"; "spent a lonesome hour in the bar"

v. move faster; "The car accelerated"

v. step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street"

v. urge to an unnatural speed; "Don't rush me, please!"

adj. acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car"

adj. moving very fast; "fleet of foot"; "the fleet scurrying of squirrels"; "a swift current"; "swift flight of an arrow"; "a swift runner"

adj. moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste; "a hurried trip to the store"; "the hurried life of a city"; "a hurried job"

adj. done or occurring in a brief period of time; "a rapid rise through the ranks"

adj. moving with great haste; "affection for this hurrying driving...little man"; "lashed the scurrying horses"

adj. excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"

adj. at a rapid tempo; "the band played a fast fox trot"

adj. moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste; "a hurried trip to the store"; "the hurried life of a city"; "a hurried job"

adj. excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"

adj. being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level; "the anchor is up"; "the sun is up"; "he lay face up"; "he is up by a pawn"; "the market is up"; "the corn is up"

adj. showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness

adj. having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism"

adj. exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits; "the elated winner"; "felt elated and excited"

adj. being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"

adj. enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage"

adj. exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation

adj. inspired with confidence; "felt bucked up by his success"