Gloomy vs Downcast - What's the difference?
gloomy | downcast |
Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.
(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 gloomy and downcast
is that gloomy is imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded while downcast is (of eyes) looking downwards.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.gloomy
English
Adjective
(er)- The cavern was gloomy .
- a gloomy temper or countenance
Synonyms
* See alsodowncast
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.