Associations to the word «Downer»

Wiktionary

DOWNER, noun. A negative drug trip.
DOWNER, noun. A drug that has depressant qualities.
DOWNER, noun. Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy

Dictionary definition

DOWNER, noun. A drug that reduces excitability and calms a person.

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus