downcast
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
downcast
- (of eyes) Looking downwards.
- 'Tis love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, / And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise.
- (of a person) Feeling despondent.
- German: niedergeschlagen
- German: niedergeschlagen, geknickt, entmutigt
- Spanish: alicaído, abatido
downcast (plural downcasts)
- (computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
- (obsolete) A melancholy look.
- 1619, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid's Tragedy
- That downcast of thine eye.
- 1619, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid's Tragedy
- (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
downcast (downcasts, present participle downcasting; past and past participle downcast)
- (transitive, obsolete) To cast or throw down; to turn downward.
- (transitive, Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
- (transitive, computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.
- Antonyms: upcast
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