Antonyms for cast down


Grammar : Adj, verb
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 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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