Downcast vs Despond - What's the difference?
downcast | despond |
(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.
To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.
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* Scott's Letters
* John Locke
* D. Webster
(archaic) Despondency.
As nouns the difference between downcast and despond
is that downcast is (computing) a cast from supertype to subtype while despond is (archaic) despondency.As verbs the difference between downcast and despond
is that downcast is (obsolete) to cast or throw up; to turn upward while despond is to give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.As an adjective downcast
is (of eyes) looking downwards.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.
Verb
despond
English
Verb
(en verb)- I should despair, or at least despond .
- Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty.
- We wish that desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong.
