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Antonyms for cast-down

Grammar : Adj
Spell : kast, kahst
Phonetic Transcription : kæst, kɑst

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 heavy-hearted : adj depressed
  • As in melancholic : adj depressed
  • As in tristful : adj depressed
  • As in depressed : adj discouraged
  • As in despondent : adj depressed
Example sentences :
  • The French lieutenant seemed the most cast-down of any of the party.
  • Extract from : « Adrift in a Boat » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • But Pennie was too cast-down to take a cheerful view of anything.
  • Extract from : « Penelope and the Others » by Amy Walton
  • Don't get cast-down over it, however; we've succeeded before, we'll do so again.
  • Extract from : « The Marriage of Esther » by Guy Boothby
  • Eileen could feel that the Princess was watching her closely under her cast-down eyelashes.
  • Extract from : « The Grell Mystery » by Frank Froest
  • A dejected and cast-down woman was assorting the despairing contents of the basket with a look of desolation.
  • Extract from : « The Witches of New York » by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
  • On a sofa sat the confessor, with cast-down eyes, holding something wrapped up under his stole.
  • Extract from : « A Russian Proprietor » by Lyof N. Tolstoi
  • His cast-down glance fell upon his grizzled mustachios, and he inwardly cursed the sign of age.
  • Extract from : « Sir Christopher » by Maud Wilder Goodwin
  • “Things are very quiet; nothing doing at the store to-day,” he explained with a cast-down air.
  • Extract from : « 'Twixt Land & Sea » by Joseph Conrad
  • Helens cast-down eyes observed the uncarpeted steps of old, stained pine-wood.
  • Extract from : « A Singular Life » by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • "I shall be only too happy," said the complaisant Marquis, and the princess's cast-down eyes declared the same.
  • Extract from : « The Fairy Book » by Dinah Maria Mulock (AKA Miss Mulock)

Synonyms for cast-down

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