different between downcast vs woebegone

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

English

Etymology

From Old English w?beg?n (“beset by woe”), from w? (“woe”) + beg?n (“to beset, to surround”). Equivalent to woe +? begone (past participle of bego).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w??b???n/
• (US) enPR: w??b?-gôn, IPA^(key): /?wo?b???n/, enPR: w??b?-gän, IPA^(key): /?wo?b???n/

Adjective

woebegone (comparative more woebegone, superlative most woebegone)

1. In a deplorable state.
2. Filled with or deeply affected by woe.

Synonyms

• (in a deplorable state): dilapidated, derelict, godforsaken, ramshackle, rundown, tumbledown
• (filled with woe): See Thesaurus:sad or Thesaurus:lamentable

Translations