'Downcast' definitions:
Definition of 'downcast'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Directed downward; "a downcast glance"
adjective
Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited]
noun
A ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine
Definition of 'Downcast'
From: GCIDE
- Downcast \Down"cast`\, n.
- 1. Downcast or melancholy look. [1913 Webster]
- That downcast of thine eye. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'downcast'
From: GCIDE
- downcast \down"cast`\, a. Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt. [1913 Webster]
- 'T is love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise. --Dryden.
- 2. depressed; dispirited; dejected; -- of people.
- Syn: down(predicate), downhearted, low, low-spirited. [WordNet 1.5] -- {Down"cast`ly}, adv. -- {Down"cast`ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'downcast'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- beating,
- bowed-down,
- cast down,
- dashed,
- debacle,
- debased,
- defeasance,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- desponding,
- discouraged,
- disheartened,
- dispirited,
- down,
- downhanging,
- downhearted,
- downthrow,
- downthrown,
- downturned,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- drubbing,
- fallen,
- feeling low,
- hanging,
- heartless,
- hypochondriac,
- hypochondriacal,
- in low spirits,
- in the depths,
- in the doldrums,
- in the dumps,
- languishing,
- licking,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- lowered,
- overthrow,
- pessimistic,
- pining,
- prostrate,
- reduced,
- rout,
- shellacking,
- spiritless,
- subdued,
- submerged,
- suicidal,
- sunk,
- sunken,
- weary of life,
- woebegone,
- world-weary