downcast

adjective

1. directed downward

- a downcast glance

Similar word(s): down

2. filled with melancholy and despondency

- downcast after his defeat

- feeling discouraged and downhearted

Similar word(s): dejected, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low

noun

1. a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

Definition categories: man–made, shaft

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cast or throw down; to turn downward.

2. (transitive, Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.

3. (transitive, computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.