Downcast

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  downcast \down"cast`\, a.
     Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness,
     modesty, dejection, or guilt.
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           '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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Downcast \Down"cast`\, n.
     1. Downcast or melancholy look.
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              That downcast of thine eye.           --Beau. & Fl.
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     2. (Mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in
        circulating through a mine.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  downcast
       adj 1: directed downward; "a downcast glance"
       2: low in spirits; "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: {blue},
           {depressed}, {dispirited}, {down(p)}, {downhearted}, {down
          in the mouth}, {low}, {low-spirited}]
       n : a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "downcast":
     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