downstream

Speech parts

1. downstream - Adjective

2. downstream - Verb

3. downstream - Adverb

Meaning

Down the stream; as, floating downstream.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

downriver down following later back next business come approach base basis behind child before below
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Antonyms

upstream high above top difficult child
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Examples

Politics is downstream of culture. Andrew Breitbart

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. John Lennon

Time carries him as the river carries A leaf in the downstream water. No matter. The enchanted one insists And shapes God with delicate geometry. Since his illness, since his birth, He goes on constructing God with the word. The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved. Baruch Spinoza

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. John Breaux

Let what is past flow away downstream. Japanese Proverb

Water runs a whole mile downstream easier than an inch upstream. Finnish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

downstater downsteepy downstep downstreamer downstreamly downstreamward