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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
downside
noun
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▪ And it is wise to consider the downside as well as the upside of locating your business in your home.
▪ Most comfort eaters enjoy it while they're eating, but the downside is they soon start to pile on the pounds.
▪ No one could contemplate fame these days without knowing beforehand of its downside.
▪ On the downside, all say the slowing national economy will hinder Texas growth.
▪ The downside is that it can be obtained only through brokers and financial advisers.
▪ The downside to this is that they lose valuable advertising space on television programmes such as Saturday Superstore.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
downside

1680s, "underside," from down (adv.) + side. Meaning "drawback, negative aspect" is attested by 1995.

Wiktionary
downside

n. 1 A disadvantageous aspect of something that is normally advantageous. 2 A downward tendency, especially in the price of shares etc

WordNet
downside

n. a negative aspect of something that is generally positive; "there is a downside even to motherhood"

Wikipedia
Downside

Downside can refer to:

  • Downside Abbey, a monastery in Somerset, England
  • Downside School, a public school in Somerset, England
  • Downside, a sub-district of Redhill, Somerset, England
  • Downside, Surrey, a small village in the county of Surrey, England
  • Downside, New South Wales, Australia

Usage examples of "downside".

He was on the downside of a career that saw him playing for the Phillies and then the Redlegs for a few years.

The downside, however, was that in order to pick up the signals the intercept operator had to get much closer to enemy lines than normal, sometimes as close as thirty-five yards.

I have run a computer check of every possible downside event, from suspected cannibals and a verified biting-death, to foot-rot from boot condensation.

Pell cried, and took off just as Nexa called Aramina's attention to the unmistakable if withered tops of redroots growing on the downside.

Life had just begun to be getting a little settled again, after the craziness of the late summer, after the desperate intervention in which they had all been involved in the Old Downside, in which Arhu gained his wizardry and Saash lost hers, or rather took it up in a more profound version after her ninth death—though either way she was lost to the team now.

Claire groped after a phrase she had heard a downsider use once, I wouldn't ask Bruce Van Atta for the time of day.

It killed all my ancestors except the very few who, by accident or by grace of the Powers, managed to find their way into the Old Downside and take refuge in the caves there, down where the catenaries spring up from their ultimate power source.

Frail Frill, one of her most loyal officers, had asked to be released from his duties planetside because it was causing jealousy among the personnel who had been denied permission to downside.

A quaddie and a downsider were just collaborating on raising a new, possibly more plasma-fire-resistant, window into place in its frame.

Most of the coolies were, after all, City-born—and mostly from the Downside where conditions were even more cramped than the average.

Johnny asked, and, with an offhand motion, Peter passed him the paper copy. "I'll just get rid of the downside junk.

It was determined that Lieutenant Schafer and Commander Uskar had turned in the bands they wore on the day of departure downside and no one had thought to see if the bands were legitimate before destroying them, as per regulations.

All the bruins wear something of the sort all the time they're downside.

The downside is trying to get the Russians to buy off on it and get it rewired and ready for launch between now and the sixth of March.

They were outside downside ops, on the main axis, the ring was still locked, the office the other side of the corridor was a steady traffic of check-ins, crew-cargo mass-check, stowage, and scheduling last half hour before undock… it could have been Sprite's ops area—it didn't feel different, except the rowdiness of the crew coming on.