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Meaning of 'downcast' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Downcast [ a.]
- Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
2 . Downcast [ n.]
- Downcast or melancholy look.
- A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

Meaning of 'downcast' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . downcast [ s]
Meaning (1):
- filled with melancholy and despondency
Example in sentence:
  • a dispirited and resigned expression on her face;
  • a gloomy silence;
  • depressed by the loss of his job;
  • downcast after his defeat;
  • feeling discouraged and downhearted;
  • gloomy at the thought of what he had to face;
  • gloomy predictions;
  • lonely and blue in a strange city;
  • the darkening mood;
  • took a grim view of the economy
Meaning (2):
- directed downward
Example in sentence:
  • a downcast glance

Nearby Words:

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