Downcast vs Devastated - What's the difference?
downcast | devastated |
(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.
As adjectives the difference between downcast and devastated
is that downcast is looking downwards while devastated is ruined, ravaged.As verbs the difference between downcast and devastated
is that downcast is to cast or throw up; to turn upward while devastated is past tense of devastate.As a noun downcast
is a cast from supertype to subtype.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.