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Antonyms for cast down
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : kast, kahst |
Phonetic Transcription : kæst, kɑst |
- abet
- above
- activate
- admire
- agree
- aid
- allow
- approve
- ascend
- assist
- assure
- blessed
- boost
- brave
- build
- build up
- bulging
- calm
- cheer
- cheered
- cheerful
- cheery
- cherish
- clarify
- clean
- cleanse
- clear
- clear up
- comfort
- comforted
- commend
- compliment
- construct
- convex
- create
- decent
- delight
- develop
- dignify
- discourage
- displace
- dissuade
- dry
- elated
- elevate
- enable
- encourage
- encouraged
- endorse
- energetic
- energize
- enhance
- enlarge
- enlighten
- esteem
- exalt
- excite
- excited
- expand
- explain
- extend
- fail
- fight
- fill
- fix
- flatter
- float
- flourishing
- fortunate
- forward
- gay
- give up
- glad
- gladden
- gleeful
- go up
- grow
- halt
- happy
- hearted
- hearten
- heartened
- heighten
- help
- higher
- honest
- honor
- hopeful
- improve
- increase
- inspire
- inspirit
- inspirited
- invigorate
- joyful
- joyous
- laud
- lift
- lively
- lofty
- lose
- lucky
- make happy
- mend
- neglect
- noble
- open
- optimistic
- order
- permit
- place
- please
- praise
- pretentious
- promote
- prosperous
- prove
- purify
- push up
- pushed up
- raise
- raised
- reassure
- release
- remove
- repair
- respect
- restore
- rich
- rise
- rise above
- satisfied
- satisfy
- soothe
- spirited
- spur on
- stimulate
- stop
- strengthen
- succeed
- superior
- support
- surrender
- unburdened
- underwhelm
- up
- upgrade
- uplift
- uplifted
- upright
- urge
- validate
- value
- win
- yield
Definition of cast down
Origin :- mid-13c., "a throw, an act of throwing," from cast (v.). In early use especially of dice, hence figurative uses relating to fortune or fate. Meaning "that which is cast" is from c.1550s. Meaning "dash or shade of color" is from c.1600. The sense of "a throw" carried an idea of "the form the thing takes after it has been thrown," which led to widespread and varied meanings, such as "group of actors in a play" (1630s). OED finds 42 distinct noun meaning and 83 verbal ones, with many sub-definitions. Many of the figurative senses converged in a general meaning "sort, kind, style" (mid-17c.). A cast in the eye (early 14c.) preserves the older verbal sense of "warp, turn."
- As in lowly : adj inferior, plain
- As in spiritless : adj depressed
- As in heavy-hearted : adj depressed
- As in melancholic : adj depressed
- As in tristful : adj depressed
- As in unwashed : adj lowly
- As in crestfallen : adj disappointed
- As in dejected : adj depressed, blue
- As in depressed : adj discouraged
- As in despondent : adj depressed
- As in doleful : adj depressing
- As in down : adj unhappy
- As in downcast : adj depressed, unhappy
- As in lower : verb let down; fall
- As in lower : verb belittle, disgrace
- As in raze : verb flatten, knock down; wipe out
- As in sadden : verb upset, depress
- As in sink : verb fall in, go under
- As in sink : verb be humble or humbled
- As in submerse : verb sink
- As in debase : verb degrade, shame
- As in defeat : verb frustrate
- As in degrade : verb shame, humiliate
- As in demean : verb humble, humiliate
- As in depress : verb deject, make despondent; exhaust
- As in disappoint : verb sadden, dismay; frustrate
- As in discourage : verb dishearten, dispirit
- As in dishearten : verb depress, ruin one's hopes
- As in humble : verb shame, put down
- As in humiliate : verb embarrass, put down
- His mother was so cast down, that she did not seem to Stineli the same person at all.
- Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
- By these words—you can see that I was young—I was exalted, not cast down.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- This angered Venus, and she resolved to cast down her earthly rival.
- Extract from : « Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew » by Josephine Preston Peabody
- She did not cast down her eyes; she, too, looked at him frankly, with a friendly smile.
- Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
- Next morning he came again, anxious and cast down in countenance.
- Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
- He was cast down, too, to think how things might go with him when this trouble came.
- Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini
- Let him be punished because he is poor, and cast down to the earth, for there is none to care for him.
- Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
- Her eyes have just been lifted, and are at once cast down again.
- Extract from : « The Fugitive (Third Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
- As I re-entered the dining-room I saw Jacobus cast down his eyes.
- Extract from : « 'Twixt Land & Sea » by Joseph Conrad
- That was why he had looked so sad and cast down the day she had first seen him.
- Extract from : « Nell, of Shorne Mills » by Charles Garvice
Synonyms for cast down
- abase
- abash
- abject
- abort
- afflict
- afflicted
- ail
- alarm
- all torn up
- apathetic
- appall
- ass in a sling
- at
- atrabilious
- average
- awe
- bad
- bad-mouth
- baffle
- balk
- base
- baseborn
- batter
- be reduced to
- bear down
- beat
- beat down
- beat the system
- belittle
- bemean
- bench
- black
- blah
- blank
- bleak
- bleeding
- blister
- block
- blow down
- blue
- bomb
- bore
- bother
- break
- break down
- break one's heart
- bring down
- bring low
- bring one down
- bring to naught
- broken
- brooding
- broody
- bug
- bulldoze
- bully
- bum out
- bummed out
- bummed-out
- bump
- bungle
- bury
- bust
- canker
- capsize
- cast down
- cast-down
- cause setback
- cave in
- chagrin
- chapfallen
- chasten
- cheapen
- checkmate
- cheerless
- chill
- circumvent
- clouded
- come to nothing
- common
- commonplace
- condescend
- confound
- confuse
- conquer
- contemn
- contravene
- cook
- corrupt
- couch
- counterplot
- cow
- crash
- crestfallen
- cripple
- cross
- crummy
- crush
- cut down to size
- cut rate
- cut to the quick
- damp
- dampen
- dampen spirits
- dampened
- darken
- dash
- dash hopes
- dashed
- daunt
- daunted
- debase
- debauch
- debilitate
- deceive
- decimate
- declass
- declassed
- decline
- decry
- deflate
- degenerate
- degrade
- deign
- deject
- dejected
- delete
- delude
- demean
- demit
- demolish
- demoralize
- demote
- denigrate
- deny
- deplore
- depose
- deprave
- deprecate
- depress
- depressed
- derogate
- descend
- desolate
- despairing
- despise
- despondent
- destroy
- destroyed
- deter
- deteriorate
- detract
- detrude
- devaluate
- devalue
- devitalize
- dig
- diminish
- dip
- dirgeful
- dis
- disable
- disappear
- disappoint
- disappointed
- disbar
- discomfit
- disconcert
- disconsolate
- discountenance
- discourage
- discouraged
- discredit
- disenchant
- disgrace
- disgruntle
- dishearten
- disheartened
- dishonor
- disillusion
- disincline
- dismal
- dismay
- dismayed
- disparage
- dispirit
- dispirited
- disprove
- dissatisfy
- distress
- distressed
- distressing
- disturb
- docile
- doleful
- dolent
- dolorous
- dopey
- down
- down and out
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- down-in-the-mouth
- downcast
- downgrade
- downhearted
- downplay
- drag
- drag down
- dragged
- draggy
- drain
- dreary
- drill
- drippy
- drive
- droop
- drooping
- droopy
- drop
- drown
- dull
- dumbfound
- dump on
- dutiful
- dynamite
- dysphoric
- ebb
- edge out
- efface
- embarrass
- embitter
- enervate
- enervated
- enfeeble
- engulf
- erase
- everyday
- excavate
- expunge
- extinguish
- extirpate
- fail
- fall
- fall down on
- fall flat
- fall short of
- faze
- fe
- fed up
- fell
- flat
- flat tire
- flounder
- fluff off
- foil
- force down
- forlorn
- founder
- frighten
- funereal
- gentle
- get down
- gloomy
- glum
- go down
- go to the bottom
- griefstricken
- grieve
- grieving
- grim
- ground
- hamper
- heartsick
- heavy-hearted
- heavyhearted
- hide
- hinder
- hopeless
- humble
- humiliate
- hurting
- ignoble
- immerse
- impair
- in a blue funk
- in a funk
- in despair
- in pain
- in the dumps
- in the pits
- in the toilet
- inanimate
- inconsolable
- indifferent
- indispose
- injure
- intimidate
- invalidate
- irk
- keep under
- knock down
- lackadaisical
- lackluster
- lamentable
- languid
- languishing
- languorous
- lay
- leave in the lurch
- lessen
- let down
- level
- lifeless
- limp
- listless
- low
- low-down
- low-spirited
- lowborn
- lower
- lugubrious
- make a fool of
- make ashamed
- make blue
- make eat dirt
- make lower
- make one feel small
- mean
- meek
- melancholic
- melancholy
- menial
- mild
- miscarry
- miserable
- mislead
- mock
- modest
- moody
- mopey
- mopish
- mopy
- morose
- mortify
- mournful
- mourning
- mow down
- mudsling
- mundane
- neutralize
- nonplus
- nose out
- not show
- nullify
- obliterate
- obscure
- obsequious
- off
- on a downer
- oppress
- oppressed
- ordinary
- outwit
- overawe
- overcome
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- painful
- pan
- perturb
- pervert
- pessimistic
- piteous
- pitiful
- plaintive
- play down
- plebeian
- plummet
- plunge
- poor
- poor-mouth
- pop one's balloon
- press
- proletarian
- prosaic
- prostrate
- pull down
- push down
- put a damper on
- put away
- put down
- put end to
- put into a funk
- put one away
- put out
- put out of countenance
- put to shame
- puzzle
- quell
- ram
- reduce
- reduce to tears
- refute
- regress
- remove
- repress
- retiring
- reverential
- rip
- ripped
- rub out
- rueful
- ruin
- ruin prospects
- rule out
- run
- run down
- sad
- sadden
- sag
- sagging
- sap
- scare
- scatter
- scorn
- scratch out
- scuttle
- servile
- set
- set down
- settle
- shake
- shame
- shave
- shellac
- shipwreck
- shoot down
- shot down
- silence
- simple
- singing the blues
- sink
- skunk
- slack
- slam
- slope
- slothful
- slow
- sluggish
- slump
- smash
- smear
- snub
- sob story
- somber
- sorrowful
- spill
- spiritless
- spoil
- squash
- squelch
- stab
- stand up
- stick
- stoop
- strike dumb
- strike out
- stump
- subdue
- subdued
- subjugate
- submerge
- submissive
- subordinate
- subside
- subvert
- succumb
- sunk
- surmount
- swamp
- take down
- take down a peg
- take wind out of sails
- taken down
- tame
- tear down
- tear up
- tease
- throw a pall over
- throw cold water on
- throw down
- throw for loop
- thrust
- thwart
- tip over
- topple
- torment
- torn up
- torpid
- total
- touch bottom
- tristful
- trouble
- troubled
- try
- turn one off
- unassuming
- unbuild
- unconcerned
- undermine
- undo
- unenthusiastic
- unhappy
- unmake
- unmoved
- unnerve
- unpretentious
- upset
- vanquish
- vex
- victimize
- vitiate
- vulgar
- weaken
- weary
- weeping
- weigh
- weigh down
- weighed down
- wipe out
- wistful
- withdrawing
- wither
- woebegone
- woeful
- wrack
- wreck
- wretched
- zap
- zero
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