cast down

adjective

Definition of cast downnext
as in sad
feeling unhappiness newly widowed, he was cast down at the thought of being alone once again

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Recent Examples of cast down And then, all of a sudden, all of the threads rip loose, and the net gets cast down to nothing. — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 23 June 2023 Make good use of the constructive energies the sun and Saturn are casting down. — USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023 His gaze, too, is cast down. — New York Times, 23 June 2022 The beast has been killed, the brush has grown wild, and Elif strides out of the frame with her eyes cast down, carrying her Quran. — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for cast down
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cast down
  1. sad
  2. unhappy
  3. depressed
  4. heartbroken
  5. miserable
  6. sorry
  7. bad
  8. melancholy
Adjective
  • Especially sad is the case of Netta, one of Liat’s three children, who survived the attack.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2025
  • But after a third season that saw Billy (Gil Bellows) strut around with a coterie of women from a Robert Palmer video before dropping dead of a brain tumor, this outing is remarkably grounded, poignant…and sad.
    — EW.com, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
Definition of sad
Adjective
  • Many previous Trump advisers, including Mr. Bolton, have tried to contain Mr. Trump, with unhappy results.
    — Michael Crowley, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Thus, Amazon knows there won't be a raft of unhappy customers complaining about losing their apps.
    — Ryan Whitwam, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2025
Definition of unhappy
Adjective
  • Mass layoffs in the Beltway could force some residents to put their homes up for sale at depressed values, denting the real estate market.
    — Matt Egan and Alicia Wallace, CNN, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Examples include formerly depressed but now vibrant cities, such as Pittsburgh, and once stagnant but now relatively successful developing countries, such as Bangladesh and Rwanda.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Definition of depressed
Adjective
  • Boldt hired 300 workers to construct the six-story, 120-room castle outfitted with a drawbridge and tower, but when Louise died suddenly in 1904, the heartbroken Boldt halted construction and never returned to the island.
    — Gulnaz Khan, AFAR Media, 13 Feb. 2025
  • There are similar Valentine’s Day opportunities geared toward the heartbroken.
    — Megan Forrester, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025
Definition of heartbroken
Adjective
  • There’s no sugarcoating it: Being sick can be miserable.
    — Amy Panos, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The way McAvoy used his great stick and heavy body to make life miserable for Canadians, including his Bruins teammate, Brad Marchand.
    — Michael Russo, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025
Definition of miserable
Adjective
  • The two would compete against each other in a contest that tested both brains and brawn (sorry, beauty tribe).
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Its latest victory came at San Mamés on Sunday—a 7-1 thrashing of sorry Real Valladolid.
    — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Definition of sorry
Adjective
  • Almost—the Cybertruck somehow manages to look worse in real life than in pictures; the confluence of angles where its various steel body panels fit together somehow serves to prove the exception to the rule that is the golden ratio.
    — Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025
  • However, irrational exuberance can leads stocks of good companies to be bad stocks.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of bad
Adjective
  • Even the quieter domestic dramas vying less for box-office glory and more for Academy Awards acclaim feature music lush with classical detail, like Carter Burwell’s melancholy strings in Carol, giving twinkly lyricism to the emotional violence roiling beneath the characters’ skins.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Instead, their new record is merely 47 minutes and 17 seconds of relative silence and white noise, a melancholy display of the sound of music if there’s no artists to actually create it.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2025
Definition of melancholy

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