Downcast

Definition: Downcast

Downcast

Adjective

1. Directed downward; "a downcast glance".

2. 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".

Noun

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

Date "downcast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Domain	Definition
Mining	A. The shaft through which the fresh air is drawn or forced into the mine; the intake. See also:air shaft; intake b. That side of a fault on which the strata have been displaced downwardin relation to the upthrow or upcast side. (references)
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Synonyms: Downcast

Synonyms: blue (adj), depressed (adj), dispirited (adj), down in the mouth (adj), down(p) (adj), downhearted (adj), low (adj), low-spirited (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dejection	Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen.
	Lower, look downcast, frown, pout; hang down the head; pull a long face, make a long face; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; grin a ghastly smile; look blue, look like a drowned man; lay to heart, take to heart.
Humility	Adverb: with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all fours, on one's feet.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Downcast

English words defined with "downcast": abasement, abjection ♦ degradation, Demissive, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, Downlooked ♦ heartsickness ♦ Maat ♦ Sad bread. (references)

Specialty definitions using "downcast": air heater ♦ holing about ♦ Idiot ♦ natural ventilating pressure, natural ventilation ♦ peripheral ventilation ♦ reversal of ventilation ♦ semidry mining. (references)

Etymologies containing "downcast": Downlooked ♦ Gloppen. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Lifting Up for the Downcast (Puritan Paperbacks Series) (reference) Why So Downcast Lo (reference) With Downcast Eyes: A Novel (reference) With downcast gays : aspects of homosexual self-oppression (reference) (more book examples)
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Play	Caption
	Sigh; blue; blue funk; bummed out; cast down; crestfallen; crummy; dejected; despondent; destroyed; disconsolate; dispirited; down; downcast; downhearted; dragged; fed up; glum; grim; hurting; in pain; let down; low; low down; low-spirited; lugubrious; me.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Nothing scans so carefully as a downcast eye.
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"Downcast" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Downcast" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	86	35,638

Expressions using "downcast": downcast shaft ♦ with downcast eyes. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "downcast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		të ulur, i vrarë shpirtërisht, i dëshpëruar (depressed, depressing, desperate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, forlorn, heavyhearted, hopeless, sad). (various references)

Arabic		‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏مكتئب (crestfallen, dejected, depressed, down-hearted, gloomy, grieved, sad), ‏منعزل (bleak, hideaway, insulate, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesome, private, quiet, recluse, retired, secluded, separate, separated, shy, solitary, withdrawn), ‏مسدل, ‏مسبل, ‏مخفوض العينين, ‏حزين (afflicted, cheerless, dejected, depressed, doleful, dolorous, drear, dreary, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholic, miserable, mournful, pathetic, plaintive, rueful, sad, sore, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wailful, weary, wistful, woeful). (various references)

Bulgarian		вентилационна шахта (air shaft, airway, upcast), отчаян (agonized, despairing, desperate, distressed, down-hearted, exanimate, last ditch, lost, miserable), наведен (inclined, prone, reclinate, splay), попарен (dashed, hipped, infused, scalded). (various references)

Chinese		悴 (distressed, haggard, sad). (various references)

Czech		zkormoucený (dejected, doleful), sklopený, skleslý (broody, cheerless, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, down-hearted, drooping, limp). (various references)

Danish		i forbindelse med ventilation taler man om skakter med faldende og stigende luftstroem (in connection with ventilation, we speak of the downcast and upcast shafts). (various references)

Dutch		intrekkende en uittrekkende schacht, die hun naam ontlenen aan de wijze van ventilatie (in connection with ventilation, we speak of the downcast and upcast shafts). (various references)

Finnish		allapäin oleva (dejected). (various references)

French		démoralisé, découragé (downhearted, down-hearted), baissé, abattu (down in the mouth, down-hearted). (various references)

German		niedergeschlagen (crestfallen, dejected, dejectedly, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, downfallen, downhearted, glum, heart-sick, in the dumps, low-spirited, low-spiritedly). (various references)

Greek		κατσούφης. (various references)

Hebrew		מופ� �" כלפי מט�", שחוח (bent, bowed, droopy). (various references)

Hungarian		levert (be cast down, crestfallen, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, down in the mouth, dumpish, heavy-hearted, lethargic, overcast, prostrate, subdued, to be in low spirits, to be in poor spirits, to be out of spirits, to feel blue, woebegone, yellow), lehangolt (dejected, depressed, disconcerted, distressed, down in the mouth, down-hearted, have the hip, have the hump, low, low-spirited, out of spirits, overcast, to be in low spirits, to be in poor spirits, to be in the dumps, to be out of spirits, to desolate, to feel low). (various references)

Italian		abbattuto (beaten, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, dispirited, down, downhearted, glum, low, moped, prostrate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		伏目 (downcast look), 伏し目 (downcast look), 弱る (to be dejected, to be downcast, to be emaciated, to be perplexed, to be troubled, to impair, to weaken). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふしめ (a knot, a turning point, downcast look), よわる (to be dejected, to be downcast, to be emaciated, to be perplexed, to be troubled, to impair, to weaken). (various references)

Manx		doolagh (broody, broody of person, dismal, miserable), croym-hooillagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		owncastday

Portuguese		desanimado (broken-down, cheerless, crestfallen, damp, depressed, despondent, dispirited, down, down-hearted, hagridden, heavy-laden, hopeless, languid, low, low-spirited, out of gas, out of heart, sorry), desalentado (dispirited), degressivo (degressive), abatido (broken-hearted, crestfallen, dead-alive, dejected, depressed, despondent, dismal, down, down-hearted, dumpish, haggard, hagridden, heavy-laden, joyless, languishing, low-spirited, melancholy, moped, prostrate, reduced, wan, washed-out, woebegone). (various references)

Romanian		deprimat (cast down, crest-fallen, dejectedly, down-hearted, grumpish, low, low-spirited, melancholy, sick), trist (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, darkish, depressing, dispirited, doleful, dolefully, dolorous, drab, dreary, dull, dumpish, elegiac, glum, joyless, lamenting, maudlin, melancholy, miserable, mournful, mournfully, pensive, pensively, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, splenetic, sullen, tough, unfortunate, unhappy, woebegone, woeful), pleoştit (baggy, flabby, flattened), plecatã, pierit (sickly, thin), opãrit, necãjit (angry, depressed, long-faced, peeved, sorry, tormented, worried), mohorât (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, dismal, dreary, dull, dun, gloomy, grave, Gray, grey, lowering, overcast, sad), cãtrãnit (angry, black, embittered, furious, jaw-fallen, peevish, sulky, tar-colored, tar-coloured, Tarry), amãrât (down-hearted, embittered, long-faced, mumper, poor man, sadly, sorry, unhappy, wretch), abãtut (blue, cast down, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, disheartened, dispirited, down-hearted, downsome, dumpy, gloomy, heart-heavy, heavy-hearted, in low spirits, in poor spirits, jaw-fallen, lamenting, long-faced, low, low-spirited, melancholy, mopish, sad, sick, useless), întristat (despondent, grieved, sad, sorry). (various references)

Russian		удрученный (chap-fallen, crestfallen, crest-fallen, dead alive, dejected, dispirited, down in the mouth, heartsick, woebegone), опущенный вниз, потупленный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oboren pogled. (various references)

Spanish		alicaído (crestfallen). (various references)

Swedish		nedslagen (crestfallen, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, dispirited, rueful). (various references)

Thai		ก้มต่ำ, ห�"หู่ใจ (grief-stricken, low). (various references)

Turkish		mahzun (chapfallen, droopy, languishing, sad), havalandırma bacası, hava kuyusu, hüzünlü (blue, cheerless, depressing, doleful, dreary, elegiac, funereal, gloomy, glum, melancholic, rueful, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful), aşağıya doğru (down, downward, downwards), üzgün (afflicted, aggrieved, bleak, careworn, chagrined, crestfallen, dejected, downhearted, glum, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, pained, regretful, rueful, sad, sick at heart, sorrowful, sorry, stricken, tearful, troubled, unhappy, upset, worried). (various references)

Ukrainian		спускання (dismount), опущений, меланхолійний погляд, засмучений (aggrieved, chap-fallen, disconcerted, dispirited, grieved, low-spirited, melancholy, sorrowful, sorry, woebegone), пригнічувати (aggrieve, cast down, deject, depress, flatten, hold down, hold under, oppress, repress, tread down, yoke), потуплений (dejected). (various references)

Vietnamese		thất vọng (chap-fallen, chop, depressed, despairing, despondingly, disappointedly, heartsick, hopeless), nhìn xuống chán nản, nản lòng (despondent, despondingly, down, down-hearted), cúi xuống. (various references)

Welsh		penisel (crestfallen). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	dimissa, dimissam, dimissi, dimissis, dimisso, dimissum, dimissus, tristatur, tristetur. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "downcast": downcasts. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Downcast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dowcett. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "downcast" (pronounced dou"nka'st)
4	-k a' s t	broadcast, forecast, newscast, outcast, overcast, rebroadcast, simulcast, telecast, typecast.
3	-a' s t	bypassed, chloroplast, Colorfast, enthusiast, flabbergast, Holdfast, iconoclast, lightfast, outlast, sandblast, steadfast, superfast.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-n-o-s-t-w"
	-2 letters: cantos, cotans, octads, octans.
	-3 letters: adown, ascot, canso, canst, canto, cants, coast, coats, codas, costa, cotan, datos, dawns, dawts, doats, donas, downs, nowts, octad, octan, santo, scant, stand, tacos, toads, towns, wands, wants, woads, wonts.
	-4 letters: acts, ados, ands, ants, awns, cads, cans, cant, cast, cats, caws, coat, coda, cods, cons, cost, cots.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-n-o-s-t-w"
	+1 letter: downcasts.
	+2 letters: wainscoted.
	+3 letters: wainscotted.
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