Downcast - What does it mean?
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has no English definition.
(of eyes) Looking downwards.
* Dryden
(of a person) Feeling despondent.
(computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
(obsolete) A melancholy look.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
(obsolete) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
(Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
(computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.
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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)- 'Tis love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, / And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise.
Noun
(en noun)- That downcast of thine eye.