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Definition of Downcast

1. Noun. A ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine.

2. Adjective. Directed downward. "A downcast glance"

3. Adjective. Filled with melancholy and despondency. "Feeling discouraged and downhearted"

Definition of Downcast

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

2. n. Downcast or melancholy look.

Definition of Downcast

1. Adjective. (context: of eyes) Looking downwards. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a person) Feeling despondent. ¹

3. Noun. (computing) A cast from supertype to subtype. ¹

4. Noun. (obsolete) A melancholy look. ¹

5. Noun. (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To cast or throw up; to turn upward. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive computing) To cast from supertype to subtype. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Downcast

1. an overthrow or ruin [n -S]

Medical Definition of Downcast

1. 1. Downcast or melancholy look. "That downcast of thine eye." (Beau. & Fl) 2. A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Downcast

downa downable downarg downbear downbeat downbeat nystagmus downbeats downbent downblouse downbound

downbow downbows downburst downbursts downcanyon downcast (current term) downcasted downcasting downcasts downclimb

downclimbed downclimbing downclimbs downclock downclocked downclocking downclocks downcome downcomes downcoming

Literary usage of Downcast

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"wool, fluff. downcast, a. 1. See DEPRESSED. rare). 2. lowered (eyes, glance), dejected (eyes; Antonyme: »ее ... Creas references: see Note, downcast: throw. ..."

2. American Poems (1625-1892) by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1912)
"... boundless blue from me to every sea This song for mariners and all their ships. YET, YET, YE downcast HOURS Yet, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also; ..."

3. Transactions. by New Hampshire Medical Society, American Ethnological Society (1857)
"Opening of the engine and downcast shafts by removing scaffolds. ... Putting doors in the drift between the downcast and upcast shafts in the Melton seam, ..."

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