downstairs

Other forms of downstairs

comparative

downstairser·

superlative

downstairsest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about downstairs

What does downstairs mean?

downstairs means "on or of lower floors of a building". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in downstairs?

downstairs has 2 syllables: down-stairs. The stress falls on "down". In IPA it is /ˈdaʊnˈstɛɹz/.

What is another word for downstairs?

Close synonyms include downstair, down the stairs, on a lower floor, below. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of downstairs?

The recorded antonyms are upstairs, upstairs.

Is downstairs a common word?

downstairs is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with downstairs?

3 words rhyme with downstairs. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.