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Downcast vs. Sorrowful

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Downcastadjective

(of eyes) Looking downwards.

Sorrowfuladjective

(of a person) exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught.

Downcastadjective

(of a person) Feeling despondent.

Sorrowfuladjective

Producing sorrow; causing grief.

‘sorrowful accident’;

Downcastnoun

(computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.

Sorrowfuladjective

Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.

‘My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.’;

Downcastnoun

(obsolete) A melancholy look.

Sorrowfuladjective

Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident.

Downcastnoun

(mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

Sorrowfuladjective

experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss;

‘sorrowful widows’; ‘a sorrowful tale of death and despair’; ‘sorrowful news’; ‘even in laughter the heart is sorrowful’;

Downcastverb

To cast or throw down; to turn downward.

Downcastverb

To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.

Downcastverb

To cast from supertype to subtype.

Downcastadjective

Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.

‘'T is love, said she; and then my downcast eyes,And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise.’;

Downcastadjective

depressed; dispirited; dejected; - of people.

Downcastnoun

Downcast or melancholy look.

‘That downcast of thine eye.’;

Downcastnoun

A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

Downcastnoun

a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

Downcastadjective

directed downward;

‘a downcast glance’;

Downcastadjective

low in spirits;

‘lonely and blue in a strange city’; ‘depressed by the loss of his job’; ‘a dispirited and resigned expression on her face’; ‘downcast after his defeat’; ‘feeling discouraged and downhearted’;

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