Downcast vs Calamitous - What's the difference?
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(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.
Concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.
:The city was struck by a calamitous cyclone.
Downcast is a related term of calamitous.
As adjectives the difference between downcast and calamitous
is that downcast is (of eyes) looking downwards while calamitous is concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.As a noun downcast
is (computing) a cast from supertype to subtype.As a verb downcast
is (obsolete) 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.