'cast down' definitions:
Definition of 'cast down'
(from WordNet)
verb
Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her" [syn: depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise] [ant: elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift]
Synonyms of 'cast down'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abase,
- abash,
- abashed,
- afflicted,
- agitated,
- bad,
- baffle,
- balk,
- beat down,
- beset,
- bilk,
- blow down,
- blow over,
- bothered,
- bowed-down,
- bowl down,
- bowl over,
- break down,
- bring down,
- bulldog,
- bulldoze,
- burn down,
- chagrin,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- chop down,
- confound,
- confuse,
- confused,
- crestfallen,
- cross,
- cut down,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dampen the spirits,
- darken,
- dash,
- dash down,
- dashed,
- debase,
- deck,
- defeat,
- defeat expectation,
- degrade,
- deject,
- dejected,
- demean,
- depress,
- depressed,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- desponding,
- disappoint,
- discomfit,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discompose,
- discomposed,
- disconcert,
- disconcerted,
- disconsolate,
- discourage,
- discouraged,
- dishearten,
- disheartened,
- disillusion,
- dispirit,
- dispirited,
- disquieted,
- dissatisfy,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- down,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- drop,
- embarrass,
- embarrassed,
- feeling low,
- fell,
- fetch down,
- flatten,
- floor,
- foil,
- frustrate,
- ground,
- heartless,
- hew down,
- humiliate,
- hung up,
- hypochondriac,
- hypochondriacal,
- ill at ease,
- in low spirits,
- in the depths,
- in the doldrums,
- in the dumps,
- knock down,
- knock over,
- languishing,
- lay level,
- lay low,
- lay out,
- let down,
- level,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- lower,
- lower the spirits,
- mortified,
- mortify,
- mow down,
- oppress,
- out of countenance,
- perturbed,
- pessimistic,
- pining,
- precipitate,
- press down,
- prostrate,
- pull down,
- put out,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- rase,
- raze,
- sadden,
- send headlong,
- sink,
- smash,
- spiritless,
- spread-eagle,
- steamroller,
- subdued,
- suicidal,
- supinate,
- take down,
- tantalize,
- tear down,
- tease,
- throw,
- throw down,
- throw into confusion,
- thwart,
- topple,
- trip,
- troubled,
- tumble,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- upset,
- weary of life,
- weigh heavy upon,
- weigh upon,
- whack down,
- woebegone,
- world-weary
Words containing 'cast down'
- Cast,
- Caste,
- Casting,
- To cast a,
- To cast by,
- To cast down,
- To cast off,
- To cast out,
- To cast up,
- cast about,
- cast off,
- cast on,
- cast out,
- cast up,
- A cast of the eye,
- Cast iron,
- Cast steel,
- Cast-off,
- Casting line,
- Casting net,
- Casting of draperies,
- Casting voice,
- Casting vote,
- Casting weight,
- Mitis casting,
- Plaster cast,
- Renal cast,
- Renal casts,
- Stone's cast,
- The die is cast,
- The last cast,
- To cast a horoscope,
- To cast a shoe,
- To cast anchor,
- To cast aside,
- To cast away,
- To cast forth,
- To cast in the teeth,
- To cast lots,
- To cast off copy,
- To cast the lead,
- To cast the water,
- To lose caste,
- bait casting,
- cast a spell,
- cast anchor,
- cast around,
- cast aside,
- cast away,
- cast forth,
- cast of characters,
- cast scrap,
- caste system,
- casting lots,
- fly casting,
- leaf cast,
- needle cast,
- sand cast,
- surf casting,
- Cast-iron,
- Clich'e casting,
- Half-caste,
- Malleable iron castings,
- To cast in one's lot with,
- To cast in one's teeth,
- To cast one's nativity,
- To cast one's self on,
- alloy cast iron,
- die-cast,
- To cast one's colt's tooth,
- To cast one's self upon,
- cast-iron plant,
- soft-cast steel,
- wrought-iron casting