[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

downcast \down"cast`\, a.
   cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness,
   modesty, dejection, or guilt.
   1913 webster

         't is love, said she; and then my downcast eyes,
         and guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise. --dryden.

   2. depressed; dispirited; dejected; -- of people.

   syn: downpredicate, downhearted, low, low-spirited.
        wordnet 1.5 -- down"cast`ly, adv. --
        down"cast`ness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
down"cast`ly down"cast`ness 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

downcast \down"cast`\, n.
   1. downcast or melancholy look.
      1913 webster

            that downcast of thine eye.           --beau.  fl.
      1913 webster

   2. mining a ventilating shaft down which the air passes in
      circulating through a mine.
      1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

downcast
     adj 1: directed downward; "a downcast glance"
     2: 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" syn: blue,
         depressed, dispirited, downp, downhearted, down
        in the mouth, low, low-spirited
     n : a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine
see also:
blue depressed dispirited downp downhearted down in the mouth 
low low-spirited 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

55 moby thesaurus words for "downcast":
   beating, bowed-down, cast down, dashed, debacle, debased,
   defeasance, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent,
   desponding, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited, down,
   downhanging, downhearted, downthrow, downthrown, downturned,
   drooping, droopy, drubbing, fallen, feeling low, hanging,
   heartless, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in low spirits,
   in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, languishing, licking,
   low, low-spirited, lowered, overthrow, pessimistic, pining,
   prostrate, reduced, rout, shellacking, spiritless, subdued,
   submerged, suicidal, sunk, sunken, weary of life, woebegone,
   world-weary

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