put-down

1. 1.

   a crushing remark

   Synonymssquelchsquelchertakedown

   Broaderderision

   colloquialism

Questions about put-down

What does put-down mean?

put-down means "a crushing remark".

How many syllables are in put-down?

put-down has 2 syllables: put--down. The stress falls on "put-".

What is another word for put-down?

Close synonyms include squelch, squelcher, takedown. 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.

Is put-down a common word?

put-down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.