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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
downcast
a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine
• Hypernyms:
shaft
1. directed downward (Freq. 1)
- a downcast glance
• Similar to:
down
2. filled with melancholy and despondency
- 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
• Syn:
gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited,
down, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
• Similar to:
dejected
• Derivationally related forms:
lowness (for: low), downheartedness (for: downhearted), dispiritedness (for: dispirited), gloominess (for: gloomy), low-spiritedness (for: low-spirited)
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