downcast

[Down·cast`]

If you're feeling sad, gloomy, blue, low, grim, depressed, or melancholy, you probably don't care if there could possibly any more synonyms for the way you feel. Rest assured that there are, and one of them is downcast.

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Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.

Noun
a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective S.
directed downward; "a downcast glance"


a.
Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.

n.
Downcast or melancholy look.

n.
A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.


Downcast

Down"cast` , a. Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
'T is love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise.
- Down"cast`ly, adv. -- Down"cast`ness, n.

Downcast

Down"cast`, n. 1. Downcast or melancholy look.
That downcast of thine eye.
2. (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.

Downcast or melancholy look.

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Usage Examples

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

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