Downgrade

Quick meaning: Downgrade is a noun meaning A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.

Meaning

A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.

More Meanings

1. A downhill gradient on a road or railway.
2. A reduction in quality; a descent towards an inferior state.
3. To place lower in position.
4. To reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts; to dumb down.
5. (transitive) To disparage.
6. (meteorology) to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.
7. (computing) To revert software back to an older version.

Example Sentences

The stock was downgraded from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’.

Near-synonyms: degradation, worsening, deterioration

Without downgrading my friends in the Building Trades, driving a nail or sawing a board is relatively simple.

[...] dynamic braking is fitted to the 99-ton, 55 ft.-long locomotives to help control these otherwise vacuum-braked trains on the long, continuous downgrades encountered on the coastal route.

Word Forms

• downgrades
• downgrading
• downgraded

Synonyms for downgrade

Depending on context, synonyms include degradation, worsening, deterioration, degrade, demote, defame.

Antonyms for downgrade

Common opposites include upgrade.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include demotion, demote, reduce, minimize, devalue, lowering.

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