| Downcast 1. (a.) Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt. 2. (n.) Downcast or melancholy look. 3. (n.) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine. Thesaurus Entries 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 |