downcast
Speech parts
1. downcast - Noun
2. downcast - Adjective
3. downcast - Verb
4. downcast - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
Downcast or melancholy look.
A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
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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