Used by today's kids as a compliment. The definition of the word should therefore be changed to something along the lines of, 'The yearn to have everything your spoiled ass has ever wanted, but to simultaneously be seen as someone who's genuinely compassionate' in short, pseudo-compassionship.
by JovalJamal December 31, 2011
I feel like down to earth means a humble, chill, and most of all honest person, in some circumstances , has a hippyish vibe . Probably someone who smokes weed, goes to tons of music festivals, listens to indie music and all that, you know.
" I'm not buying that shirt, it's way too expensive, I can get something better at a thrift store, anyway I'm pretty poor."
"You're so down to earth "
"You're so down to earth "
by Kaiaischill April 17, 2016
Those morons in the movie Idiocracy are very down to earth.
You remember how one of the Greek Dictators (they called them “tyrants” then) sent an envoy to another Dictator to ask his advice about the principles of government. The second Dictator led the envoy into a field of grain, and there he snicked off with his cane the top of every stalk that rose an inch or so above the general level. The moral was plain. Allow no preeminence among your subjects. Let no man live who is wiser or better or more famous or even handsomer than the mass. Cut them all down to a level: all slaves, all ciphers, all nobodies. All equals. Thus Tyrants could practise, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own. No one need now go through the field with a cane. The little stalks will now of themselves bite the tops off the big ones. The big ones are beginning to bite off their own in their desire to Be Like Stalks.
You remember how one of the Greek Dictators (they called them “tyrants” then) sent an envoy to another Dictator to ask his advice about the principles of government. The second Dictator led the envoy into a field of grain, and there he snicked off with his cane the top of every stalk that rose an inch or so above the general level. The moral was plain. Allow no preeminence among your subjects. Let no man live who is wiser or better or more famous or even handsomer than the mass. Cut them all down to a level: all slaves, all ciphers, all nobodies. All equals. Thus Tyrants could practise, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own. No one need now go through the field with a cane. The little stalks will now of themselves bite the tops off the big ones. The big ones are beginning to bite off their own in their desire to Be Like Stalks.
by sword of a thousand truths June 7, 2014
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Means he is down to earth, chill, outgoing, but just has that 'swagg' certain swagg about him that makes you love him.
-Amy Massengill
-Amy Massengill
by 4vMach April 28, 2010
adj. sl. ironic way of saying someone or something is cheap; euphemism of having no sense of elegance, quality, and breeding.
Mary: How do you like your new dress?
Wilma: It's poetically down-to-earth; how am i supposed to face my friends now?
Wilma: It's poetically down-to-earth; how am i supposed to face my friends now?
by russell christian fernandez April 28, 2007
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