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downcast::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited |
downcast after his defeat.
downcast::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | shaft |
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a downcast glance.
Examples of downcast
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Hunton portrays Natalie as bit of a nerd, with downcast eyes and slumped stance.
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Kennedy looked downcast and did not pursue the matter of FTC secrecy any further.
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Etherly, then a junior, was downcast, to the point where tears filled his eyes.
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The boy shuffled in, short and scrawny, a baseball cap shading his downcast eyes.
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With her head downcast and her sideways squint, she hardly engages with anyone.
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And then it switches to Nite Owl in his headquarters loking downcast and weary.
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Delaroche's Napoleon is instead downcast, gaunt and embittered by the harsh cold.
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The prime minister appeared far from downcast as he announced his resignation.
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Glancing at the girl, Marissa saw her downcast eyes fill with doubt and worry.
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- A ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine
- Directed downward; "a downcast glance"
- Gloomy: filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned ...
- In object-oriented programming, downcasting or type refinement is the act of casting a reference of a base class to one of its derived classes.
- A cast from supertype to subtype; To cast or throw up; to turn upward; To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid; To cast from supertype to subtype; Looking downwards; Feeling despondent
- Downcasting is the name given to the casting of a type from the general to the more specific (e.g. casting an Object/AnyVal to a String). Typically this technique is used when casting of objects contained in a collection to iterate over them.
