downcast : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: downcast	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for downcast
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
downcast adj directed downward; "a downcast glance" 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" Synonym(s): gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited n a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. - {Down"cast`ly}, adv. -- {Down"cast`ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Downcast \Down"cast`\, n. 1. Downcast or melancholy look. That downcast of thine eye. --Beau. & Fl. 2. (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.