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# downcast

«downcast» in Mova's school dictionary: **sad and gloomy, looking down: she was downcast after…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (downcast, more downcast, most downcast)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Downcast means sad and gloomy, looking down: she was downcast after losing the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downcast/#m1)

2) Downcast eyes are eyes looking down, often because of shame, shyness or sadness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downcast/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, downcast eyes show a character who is shy, ashamed or unhappy, and who does not look at others.

### examples

- He stood with downcast eyes after breaking the vase. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downcast/#x1)
- The downcast girl did not reply. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downcast/#x2)
- Our team looked downcast after the goal was scored against us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downcast/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «downcast» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downcast/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.