Usually means: Negative aspect or disadvantage experienced.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. downside: Merriam-Webster
  2. downside: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. downside: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. downside: Collins English Dictionary
  5. downside: Vocabulary.com
  6. Downside, downside: Wordnik
  7. downside: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. downside: Wiktionary
  9. downside: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. downside: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. downside: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. downside: Dictionary.com
  13. downside: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Downside: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. downside: Rhymezone
  16. downside: FreeDictionary.org
  17. downside: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. downside: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. downside: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  20. downside: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  2. Downside: Investopedia
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. downside: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A disadvantageous aspect of something that is normally advantageous.
noun:  A downward tendency, especially in the price of shares etc.
noun:  The side of something that is at the bottom, or that is intended to face downward.
noun:  A number of places in England:
noun:  A southern suburb of Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL0320).
noun:  A suburb of Eastbourne, East Sussex (OS grid ref TV5999).
noun:  A hamlet in Chilcompton parish, Somerset, previously in Mendip district, near Downside Abbey and Downside School (OS grid ref ST6450).
noun:  A small village in Shepton Mallet parish, Somerset, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST6244).
noun:  A small village in Backwell parish and Wrington parish, North Somerset, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4966).
noun:  A small village in Elmbridge borough, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ1158).
noun:  A rural community of the City of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

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