downcast
Noun
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A ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine (synset 103234123)
is a type of: shaft - a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
Adjective
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Directed downward (synset 302502397)
"a downcast glance"similar to: down - being or moving lower in position or less in some value
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Filled with melancholy and despondency (synset 300707060)
"gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"similar to: dejected - affected or marked by low spiritssame as: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited
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