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Definition: Downtrodden |
DowntroddenAdjective1. Wrongfully subjugated and oppressed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "downtrodden" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: DowntroddenSynonyms: oppressed (adj), persecuted (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contempt | Contemptible, despicable; pitiable; pitiful; (unimportant); despised;Verb: downtrodden; unenvied. |
Dejection | Overcome; broken down, borne down, bowed down; heartstricken; (mental suffering); cut up, dashed, sunk; unnerved, unmanned; down fallen, downtrodden; broken-hearted; careworn. |
Disrepute | Adjective: disgraced; Verb: blown upon; "shorn of its beams ", shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame; Noun: in bad repute; Noun: out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance; at a discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to show one's face; in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down at the elbows, down in the world. |
Failure | Aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered, capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited; foiled; defeated; struck down, borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with; ploughed, plowed, plucked. |
Subjection | Adjective: subject, dependent, subordinate; feudal, feudatory; in subjection to, under control; in leading strings, in harness; subjected, enslaved; Verb: constrained; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked; the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of; under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb; a slave to; at the mercy of; in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of; at the feet of; at one's beck and call; (obedient); liable; parasitical; stipendiary. |
Submission | Adjective: surrendering; Verb: submissive, resigned, crouching; downtrodden; down on one's marrow bones; on one's bended knee; unresistant, unresisting, nonresisting; pliant; (soft); undefended. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Downtrodden |
| English words defined with "downtrodden": Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin ♦ Downtrod ♦ Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin. (references) |
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| "Downtrodden" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.78% of the time. "Downtrodden" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.78% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "downtrodden": quite-downtrodden. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
downtrodden | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "downtrodden"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i tiranizuar, i shtypur (depressed, indented, printed, snub, typewritten), i shkelur me këmbë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тормозен, потъпкан, подтиснат (depressed, oppressed, subdued, suppressed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 受压迫. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | utiskovaný. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unterdrückt (disabled, oppresses, quashes, repressed, represses, restrained, suppressed, suppresses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταπατημένοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ר"ף (oppressed, persecuted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | letaposott. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tertindas (oppressed, suppressed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 虐'られた人人 (downtrodden people, the oppressed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しいた'られたひとびと (downtrodden people, the oppressed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | broojit fo-chosh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owntroddenday pisado, oprimido (underdog), calcado (paved). (various references) asuprit (down-trodden, oppressed), împilat (down-trodden). (various references) растоптанный, забитый. (various references) ugnjeten, podjarmljen. (various references) oprimido (airless, oppressive, stale, stiffling, sultry). (various references) förtrampad. (various references) haksızlığa uğramış olan, ezilen, ayaklar altında çiğnenen. (various references) зневажений, затоптаний. (various references) bị ch đạp, bị đè nén, bị áp bức. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Downtrodden" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: downrodden. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "downtrodden" (pronounced dou'ntrÄ"dun) |
| 4 | -Ä" d u n | sodden. |
| 3 | -d u n | abandon, bedridden, beholden, broaden, burden, cordon, deaden, embolden, forbidden, garden, gladden, golden, harden, hidden, Holden, Jordan, laden, leaden, Linden, Loden, Louden, madden, maiden, menhaden, Myrmidon, olden, overburden, overridden, pardon, prekindergarten, prostaglandin, redden, ridden, sadden, Soldan, sudden, tendon, unburden, warden, widen, wooden. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-d-e-n-n-o-o-r-t-w" | |
-2 letters: downtrend. | |
-3 letters: downtrod, drownded. | |
-4 letters: dendron, donnerd, donnert, drowned, nonword, redwood, trodden. | |
-5 letters: dodder, donned, downed, downer, droned, drownd, enroot, newton, nodded, nodder, odored, renown, rodded, rodent, rooted, tendon, tonner, trowed, wonder, wonned, wonner, wonted, wonton, wooded, wooden, worded. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 77 6E 74 72 6F 64 64 65 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- .--. -. - .-. --- -.. -.. . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 01110100 01110010 01101111 01100100 01100100 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o w n t r o d d e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0077 006E 0074 0072 006F 0064 0064 0065 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3881898086848170707180 |
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