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单词 downcast
释义
downcast
adjective
uk
/ˈdaʊn.kɑːst/us
/ˈdaʊn.kæst/

downcastadjective(UNHAPPY)

formal
sadand withouthope:
垂头丧气的，萎靡不振的；伤心绝望的
Ithoughtyou werelookinga little downcast thismorning.我觉得你今天早上好像有点垂头丧气。
Synonyms
blue(SAD)informal
dejected
depressed
despondent
dispirited
doleful
dolorousliterary
down
downhearted
(down) in thedumps
gloomy
gluminformal
low
low-spirited
melancholy
miserable(UNHAPPY)
sad(NOT HAPPY)
sorrowfulliterary
the doldrumsinformal
unhappy
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feeling sad and unhappy
  • a dog's lifeidiom
  • a long faceidiom
  • angsty
  • be cut upidiom
  • be down in the mouthidiom
  • be in a funkidiom
  • be in bitsidiom
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • dog
  • doleful
  • lovelorn
  • lovesick
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • wistful
  • wistfully
  • woe
  • woe is meidiom
  • woebegone
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Not hopeful

downcastadjective(EYES DOWN)

If someone'seyesare downcast, they arelookingdown.
眼睛向下看的，目光低垂的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The eye & surrounding area
  • beady
  • beetling
  • blink
  • ciliary
  • cone
  • crow's feet
  • epiretinal membrane
  • extraocular
  • eye socket
  • fovea
  • iris
  • peeper
  • retina
  • retinal
  • rheumy
  • sclera
  • simple eye
  • squint
  • staring
  • supraorbital
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(Definition ofdowncastfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

downcast| American Dictionary

downcast
adjective
us
/ˈdɑʊnˌkæst/
lookingdown, usually because of beingshyorsad
Apersonwho is downcast issadorupset.
(Definition ofdowncastfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdowncast

downcast
As confinement is a downwards-closed property of the type system, downcasts cannot violate encapsulation.
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More somber than usual, he seemed thoroughlydowncastand withdrawn.
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Facing it were four divisions, three of which weredowncastdue to the previous successive setbacks.
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The astonished fiancée stands with mouth agape, eyesdowncastand shut, as she presses her left hand beneath her heart, as if to uphold it.
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Not only that, but the emphatically rising gesture is followed every time bydowncastgestures.
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The painting's meaning, in turn, becomes more shaded, even as her half-shaded visage anddowncasteyes screen the nun's emotions from the viewer.
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Thedowncastfarmer went home but the accordion had come to stay.
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In a way, that makes me feel extremely sad anddowncast.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Two downcasts and one upcast shaft, of sufficient dimensions to take the air from the other two.
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He said that this is only a passing phase, and that thisdowncastportion will disappear.
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Therefore, we should not be toodowncastabout the failure of this meeting.
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We are told that these poor,downcastindustrialists need subsidies.
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There is adowncastand an upcast shaft, but the coal goes up on a belt at an incline.
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I remember an instance when we could not work underground in adowncastshaft adjacent to a spoil heap.
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I do not think there is any ground for being dispirited ordowncastabout the young.
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