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Meanings of downcast in English
Filled with melancholy and despondency.
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Examples for "down"
Examples for "down"
1
Reading down the list they said, 'Nice', 'Real nice', 'Very nice', 'Nice'.
2
However, Evans said the opportunity was simply too good to turn down.
3
The deal would, however, create a customs border down the Irish Sea.
4
The last Labour government went quite a long way down this road.
5
The stock, however, remains down some 30 percent so far this year.
1
Health officials say the public health risk has been assessed as low.
2
Cases mostly involved young people, with a low proportion of severe cases.
3
Conclusions: Consumption of soy products is low in centres in Western Europe.
4
Crime is at a 12-year low in Northern Ireland, police said today.
5
The extremely low rate of community testing has public health experts worried.
1
Semihard; blue; goat; mellow; small; square; a quarter to a half pound.
2
A sea of blue state police cars stood motionless ahead of them.
3
For example, left hand to blue crimp, right foot to green pinch.
4
The sea was quite calm, the sky was so clear and blue.
5
The wind blows soft; the sky is blue; the sun shines bright
1
It is possible the situation is less grim than it currently appears.
2
The Baghdad I left behind five years ago was a grim place.
3
Scotland's chief medical officer had another grim message for the public today.
4
They bring the grim reality of male violence into our living rooms.
5
This was the actual, and often quite grim, reality of the frontier.
1
The planet's inhabitants will remain gloomy, however, even despite their new surroundings.
2
Chris's own father had reached the gloomy state of mind long ago.
3
In general, he had the most gloomy ideas concerning almost all events.
4
Rival Spanish hotel chain Melia MEL.MC reported similarly gloomy results last week.
5
But it may point to a gloomy long-term outlook for energy prices.
1
The great majority of auctions during this period offered extremely depressed securities.
2
Surging gasoline prices and soft labor market conditions have depressed consumer spirits.
3
Given depressed share prices, many banks are anxious to avoid issuing equity.
4
Because at this point they're no longer suffering from a depressed economy.
5
After the incident, he became depressed, and required medical treatment, he said.
1
He was quite dispirited, facing the prospect of bankruptcy at that point.
2
The Concern Worldwide chief executive does admit to being dispirited at times.
3
Where Geertz saw dispirited, tradition-bound irrationality among villagers, Dunham saw potential vitality.
4
Ginevra lived her full life in a ball-room; elsewhere she drooped dispirited.
5
The very presence of the automaton chilled and dispirited the impatient visitor.
1
In that case, I want you not to be downhearted or disappointed.
2
Do not be downhearted; it will all come right in the end.
3
At any rate, I was too jolly downhearted to court another refusal.
4
But he was not a man to become downhearted on that account.
5
The door is chained and locked but Peter Tremayne is not downhearted.
1
It makes me selfish and low-spirited; for I'm not a bit interesting.
2
The cab-driver is low-spirited, and has a solemn sense of his responsibility.
3
The prisoners must, if they were genuine Englishmen, have felt rather low-spirited.
4
Some of the midshipmen in Dave's section however, felt low-spirited that morning.
5
Yet the Master's daughter did not allow herself to become low-spirited.
1
He was so down in the mouth that the sentinels noticed it.
2
Poor old Jim looks dreadful down in the mouth, don't he, though?'
3
The Bay which he laies down in the mouth is imediatelybelowme .
4
Of course it makes me a little down in the mouth.
5
The old man was rather down in the mouth for him.
Usage of downcast in English
1
The former were excited with delight; the latter were downcast with sorrow.
2
Yet this time, to Morgan's surprise, Kingsley did not seem utterly downcast.
3
So I went in, but went in slowly and with downcast eyes.
4
Others came back in the custody of policemen and with downcast looks.
5
Still, you wouldn't say that Nicolas Roeg seems in any way downcast.
6
Her eyes were downcast to hide the moisture that was in them.
7
Her eyes were downcast-lookingupon the waxed floor as if in meditation.
8
His downcast gaze fell upon the poor earthly brilliance of the diamonds.
9
Sophie went on her way downcast, but not in the least disheartened.
10
For an instant Feller was downcast; then confidence returned at high pitch.
11
But the handsome, beardless face of the sledge-driver looked mournful and downcast.
12
She was somewhat heavy and grave, I think, downcast and yet watchful.
13
All Christendom feels the shock, and mourns with downcast eyes the consequences.
14
At the door he turned and said timidly and with downcast eyes.
15
Kedzie lifted her downcast eyes in gratitude for such a godlike resolution.
16
Some were joyous, and some downcast; some were sorry, and others glad.
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Downcast across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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