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downcast

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈdaʊnkɑːst/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted acdnostwStarts with DEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. filled with melancholy and despondency

Word origin

From Middle English downcast (“misfortune”), adoun-cast (“destruction, overthrow”), from adoun (“downward”) + cast (“a throw, a cast”) (from Old Norse kast (“a throw”), from kasten (“to cast, throw”)), from Middle English casten adoun: see etymology 1. The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“act of throwing”, noun).

Used in a sentence

  • Briefly then heere Dido, with downe caſt phiſnomie, parled.
  • [A]s before Empire and Arts made vvay, / (For no leſſe Harbingers vvould ſerve then they) / So they might ſtill, and point us out the place / VVhere firſt the Church ſhould raiſe her dovvn-caſt face.
  • 'Tis Love, ſaid ſhe; and then my dovvn-caſt eyes, / And guilty dumbneſs, vvitneſs'd my ſurprize.

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