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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

downcast

/doun'-kăstˌ/ · down·cast · IPA /ˈdaʊnˌkæst/
01 a. Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
  1. 1.
    Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
    “'T is love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise.” — Dryden.
  2. 2.
    depressed; dispirited; dejected; -- of people.
Syn. down(predicate), downhearted, low, low-spirited.
02 n. Downcast or melancholy look.
  1. 1.
    Downcast or melancholy look.
    “That downcast of thine eye.” — Beau. & Fl.
  2. 2.
    A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.(Mining)