Downcast vs Glum - What's the difference?
downcast | glum |
(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.
(obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
(obsolete) sullenness
despondent; moody; sullen
* Thackeray
As nouns the difference between downcast and glum
is that downcast is (computing) a cast from supertype to subtype while glum is light.As an adjective downcast
is (of eyes) looking downwards.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.
Verb
glum
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) glomen, glommen, glomben, . More at (l).Verb
(glumm)- (Hawes)
Noun
(-)- (Skelton)
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(glummer)- I frighten people by my glum face.