Crossword clues for downcast
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. --Dryden. 2. depressed; dispirited; dejected; -- of people. Syn: down(predicate), downhearted, low, low-spirited. [WordNet
5] -- Down"cast`ly, adv. -- Down"cast`ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
1 (context of eyes English) Looking downwards. 2 (context of a person English) Feeling despondent. n. 1 (context computing English) A cast from supertype to subtype. 2 (context obsolete English) A melancholy look. 3 (context mining English) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine. v
1 (context transitive obsolete English) To cast or throw up; to turn upward. 2 (context transitive Scotland English) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. 3 (context transitive computing English) To cast from supertype to subtype.
WordNet
adj. directed downward; "a downcast glance"
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
Usage examples of "downcast".
He begged me to come and see Esther, and left me looking almost as downcast as I was.
At one moment the young man felt intensely relieved, for, turning into the Rue La Boetie, they walked on slowly, as if downcast and resigned, in the direction of Grenelle.
Five or six days before my departure Desarmoises came to me looking very downcast, and told me that he had been ordered to leave Turin in twenty-four hours.
Rachel made no reply, but she looked steadfastly and uneasily upon the enigmatical face and downcast eyes of the young man.
I thought his wife looking rather downcast I asked her if she had not slept well.
The advocate looked downcast, but Torriano consoled him by a fee of six sequins, and everybody went away.
The filet of baby dewback with caper sauce and fleik-liver pate was the best Trevagg had ever eaten, and when Nightlity hooned, with modestly downcast eyes, that virgins of her people were only permitted fruits and vegetables, Porcellus outdid himself in the production of four courses of lipana berries and honey, puptons of dried magicots and psibara, a baked felbar with savory cream, and staggeringly good bread pudding for dessert.
The meeting ended, and Skilling, downcast, followed Kinder to the elevator for the fiftieth floor.
Chin Kou seemed a flower fashioned of aged ivory, with downcast almond eyes and a shy smile.
The prisoners, in a downcast column, weary, spent, and unkempt, filed off to the Boer laager at Waschbank, there to take train for Pretoria.
Sixx saw the other two appear, Lowry with a slow grin, Miss Stame looking downcast.
Father stood motionless as stone, one nailless hand resting upon his long red-gold beard, his deeply sunken eyes downcast, intent on the figure on the grass.
Arrhyna came with downcast eyes, nervous as a deer, Nemeth and Zeil close behind and no more confident.
The children sat with their eyes downcast, eating a tasty dish called shrimp paella over rice that Juanita had just served along with a long loaf of crusty bread and a zesty arugula, tomato, onion, and mozzarella salad.
Leaning on his stick, his form bent by care and age, his eyes downcast, and his steps trembling, the grey-haired Medon slowly approached towards the gladiator.