The difference between Disconsolate and Downcast
When used as nouns, disconsolate means disconsolateness, whereas downcast means a cast from supertype to subtype.
When used as adjectives, disconsolate means cheerless, dreary, whereas downcast means looking downwards.
Downcast is also verb with the meaning: to cast or throw down.
check bellow for the other definitions of Disconsolate and Downcast
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Disconsolate as an adjective:
Cheerless, dreary.
Examples:
"I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day."
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Disconsolate as an adjective:
Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
Examples:
"For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate."
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Disconsolate as a noun (obsolete):
Disconsolateness.
Examples:
"rfquotek Barrow"
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Downcast as an adjective (of eyes):
Looking downwards.
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Downcast as an adjective (of a person):
Feeling despondent.
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Downcast as a noun (computing):
A cast from supertype to subtype.
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Downcast as a noun (obsolete):
A melancholy look.
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Downcast as a noun (mining):
A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
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Downcast as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To cast or throw down; to turn downward.
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Downcast as a verb (transitive, Scotland):
To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
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Downcast as a verb (transitive, computing):
To cast from supertype to subtype.
Examples:
"ant upcast"