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downside

noun
/ˈdaʊnˌsaɪd/

Etymology

From down (a hill) + side.

  1. derived from *sēy-✻ — “to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”
  2. inherited from *sīdaz✻ — “drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”
  3. inherited from *sīd✻
  4. inherited from sīd — “wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”
  5. inherited from side
  6. compounded as downside — “down + side”

Definitions

  1. A disadvantageous aspect of something that is normally advantageous.

    • The downside of obtaining a higher rank is that far more work is expected.
    • Hazardous and nuclear waste came to represent the downside of industrial prosperity.
    • The downside of being snaggle-toothed is that you whistle through them and people can't understand what you're talking about.

  2. A downward tendency, especially in the price of shares etc.

    • The strategy is used both to increase the return on the underlying stock and to provide a limited amount of downside protection.
    • I could go all the way back to 1982 and I'm sure the effects of the expiration will be even more exacerbated on the downside of the spread.
    • In Table 3, the options are shown for the same client who will accept a one in ten chance of breaching the downside of -3% in any one year.

  3. The side of something that is at the bottom, or that is intended to face downward.

    • The buildings on the downside of the station were demolished and new premises of modern design constructed on the new platform.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A number of places in England

      A number of places in England:

    2. A rural community of the City of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

The neighborhood

Derived

downside up

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for downside. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA