downcast
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
downcast
adj 1: directed downward; "a downcast glance"
2: 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}]
n 1: a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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