different between dishearted vs downcast

dishearted

English

Verb

dishearted

  1. simple past tense and past participle of disheart

Anagrams

  • death rides

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downcast

English

Etymology

From Middle English *doun-casten, *adoun-casten (inferred from Middle English adoun-casting (downcasting), adoun-cast (overthrow, destruction)), modelled similarly to other constructions in Middle English (namely, Middle English adoun-throwen (to throw down), adoun-werpen (to throw down)), equivalent to down- +? cast.

Pronunciation

  • (adjective, noun)
    • (General American) IPA(key): /?da?nkæst/
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?da?nk??st/
  • (verb)
    • (General American) IPA(key): /da?n?kæst/
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /da?n?k??st/

Adjective

downcast (comparative more downcast, superlative most downcast)

  1. (of eyes) Looking downwards.
    • 1717, John Dryden, Canace to Macareus
      'Tis love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, / And guilty dumbness, witness'd my surprise.
  2. (of a person) Feeling despondent.

Translations

Noun

downcast (plural downcasts)

  1. (computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
  2. (obsolete) A melancholy look.
    • 1619, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid's Tragedy
      That downcast of thine eye.
  3. (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

Verb

downcast (third-person singular simple present downcasts, present participle downcasting, simple past and past participle downcast or downcasted)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To cast or throw down; to turn downward.
  2. (transitive, Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
  3. (transitive, computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.
    Antonym: upcast

Anagrams

  • cast down

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