downcast

Of the eyes, a facial expression, etc.: looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.

• Briefly then heere Dido, with downe caſt phiſnomie, parled.
• [A]s before Empire and Arts made vvay, / (For no leſſe Harbingers vvould ſerve then they) / So they might ſtill, and point us out the place / VVhere firſt the Church ſhould raiſe her dovvn-caſt face.

Of a person or thing: cast or thrown to the ground.

• VVhere liues all vvoe? conduct him to vs three, / The dovvne-caſt ruines of calamitie.
• […] Dovvncaſt Lucifer revolves his State, / VVith his fall'n Angels ſits in Dark Debate, / And from This Conſtellation bodes his Fate.

Of a thing: directed downwards.

Of a person: feeling despondent or discouraged.figuratively

• His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow and quenched in infinite wretchedness.
• You seem so downcast. Has Mai gotten to you already?

Of a person or thing: defeated, overthrown; also, destroyed, ruined.figuratively

Synonym of downthrow (“a depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault”).obsolete

• a downcast dyke

An act of looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty; hence (uncountable, archaic), dejection, melancholy.countable

• [C]ome lets be ſad my girles, / That dovvne caſt of thine eye Olimpias, / Shovves a faind ſorrovv; […]
• I ſavv the reſpectful Dovvncaſt of his Eye, vvhen you catcht him gazing at you during the Muſick: He, I vvarrant, vvas ſurpriz'd, as if he had been taken ſtealing your VVatch. O! the undiſſembled Guilty Look!

An act, or the situation, of being cast or thrown to the ground.archaiccountableuncountable

A defeat, an overthrow; also, an act of destruction or ruin.archaiccountablefiguratively

A cast (“change of expression of a data type”) from supertype to subtype.countable

A ventilating shaft down which air passes in circulating through a mine.attributivecountable

To turn (the eyes) downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.transitive

To cast or throw (something) downwards; also, to drop or lower (something).transitive

• For there shall come a mightier blast, / There shall be a darker day; / And the stars, from heaven down-cast, / Like red leaves be swept away!

To demolish or tear down (a building, etc.).transitive

To make (someone) feel despondent or discouraged; to discourage, to sadden.figurativelytransitive

To cast (“change the expression of”) (a data type) from supertype to subtype.transitive

To reproach or upbraid (someone); also, to taunt (someone).Scotlandtransitive

To depose or overthrow (a leader, an institution, etc.); also (sometimes reflexive), to bring down (oneself or someone) from an exalted position; to humble.obsoletetransitive