a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

directed downward; a downcast glance'

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 ]