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Mournful vs Downcast - What's the difference?

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Mournful is a related term of downcast.


As adjectives the difference between mournful and downcast

is that mournful is filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns 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.

mournful

English

Alternative forms

* mournfull

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
  • Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
  • * (Edgar Allan Poe)
    • Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    downcast

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of eyes) Looking downwards.
  • * Dryden
    • 'Tis love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, / And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise.
  • (of a person) Feeling despondent.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
  • (obsolete) A melancholy look.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • That downcast of thine eye.
  • (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

    • Verb

  • (obsolete) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
  • (Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
  • (computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.