Downcast

Origin

down + cast

Full definition of downcast

Adjective

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

Noun

1. (computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
2. (obsolete) A melancholy look.
• Beaumont and FletcherThat downcast of thine eye.
3. (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

Verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
2. (transitive, Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
3. (transitive, computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.