downcast

downcast is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
2. noun. Downcast or melancholy look.
3. noun. A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
4. noun. a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine
5. adjective. filled with melancholy and despondency

   "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"

   "gloomy predictions"

   Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low

6. adjective. directed downward

   "a downcast glance"

Synonyms

blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low

Common word forms

downcasts, downcastly, downcastness

Words from these letters

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