Synonyms for downwind
ˈdaʊnˈwɪnddown·wind

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1. downwindadverb

   Antonyms:
   upwind

2. downwindadverb

   Antonyms:
   upwind

3. downwindadverb

   Antonyms:
   upwind

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1. downwind, lee(a)adverb

   towards the side away from the wind

   Antonyms:
   windward, against the wind, leeward, into the wind, upwind

2. downwindadverb

   with the wind; in the direction the wind is blowing

   "they flew downwind"

   Synonyms:
   windward

   Antonyms:
   windward, against the wind, upwind, into the wind, leeward

3. windward, downwindadverb

   away from the wind

   "they were sailing windward"

   Synonyms:
   windward

   Antonyms:
   windward, into the wind, leeward, upwind, against the wind

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1. List of paraphrases for "downwind":

   tailwind, upwind, downstream, wind

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How to use downwind in a sentence?

1. Bryson DeChambeau:

   I knew if it was a little downwind, I could take a unique line ... and I said to myself, ’all right, I have to aim at the green, so I did.

2. Jeffrey Olson:

   I’m not talking about car or truck traffic but pollutants that are transported by prevailing winds, for example, pollutants from a coal-fired electrical generating station are carried by prevailing winds long distances away from the plant and have an effect on air quality in a national park or other area downwind from that plant.

3. Jonathan Buonocore:

   There's a lot of coal there and there's a lot of people who live in the region and downwind of the region.

4. Tim Kiefer:

   Up the railroad tracks, keep your downwind inside the gravel pit, where you from today?

5. Patrick Cantlay:

   Just hit it a little fat, and it's got to get up in the air to get the wind, it was downwind and didn't get the wind because I hit it fat and it went in the water.