downcast

About 0.62 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of the eyes, a facial expression, etc.: looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
2. adjective Of a person or thing: cast or thrown to the ground.
3. adjective Of a thing: directed downwards.
4. adjective : Of a person: feeling despondent or discouraged.
5. adjective Of a person: feeling despondent or discouraged.
6. adjective Of a person or thing: defeated, overthrown; also, destroyed, ruined.
7. noun Synonym of downthrow (“a depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault”).

   a downcast dyke

8. noun An act of looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty; hence , dejection, melancholy.

Similar words

dejected depressed downhearted low-spirited dispirited down low blue despondent sad

Often followed by

eyes and face look looks eye as head at