1 If someone's eyes are downcast, they are looking down. --
2 looking down, usually because of being shy or sad --
I do not think there is any ground for being dispirited or downcast about the young.
I remember an instance when we could not work underground in a downcast shaft adjacent to a spoil heap.
There is a downcast and an upcast shaft, but the coal goes up on a belt at an incline.
We are told that these poor, downcast industrialists need subsidies.
Therefore, we should not be too downcast about the failure of this meeting.
He said that this is only a passing phase, and that this downcast portion will disappear.
Two downcasts and one upcast shaft, of sufficient dimensions to take the air from the other two.
In a way, that makes me feel extremely sad and downcast.
