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Downcast - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As an adjective downcast

is looking downwards.

As a noun downcast

is a cast from supertype to subtype.

As a verb downcast

is to cast or throw up; to turn upward.

downcast

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of eyes) Looking downwards.
  • * Dryden
  • 'Tis love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, / And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise.
  • (of a person) Feeling despondent.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
  • (obsolete) A melancholy look.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • That downcast of thine eye.
  • (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
  • Verb

  • (obsolete) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
  • (Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
  • (computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.
  • Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.