cast
cast
nounDefinition of CAST
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a declaration that something will happen in the future <stock market analysts offered an optimistic cast for the coming year>
Synonyms auguring, augury, bodement, cast, forecast, forecasting, foretelling, predicting, presaging, prognosis, prognostic, prognosticating, prognostication, prophecy (also prophesy), soothsaying, vaticination
Related Words foreboding, harbinger, omen, portent, prevision, prospectus, sign; anticipation, foreknowledge; foresight; conjecture, guess, surmise
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a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished <the walls had a slight yellowish cast>
Related Words overtone, undertone; primary color, secondary color, tertiary color; brightness, chroma, chromaticity, contrast, lightness, saturation, value; coloration, coloring, colorway, pigmentation
Near Antonyms achromatism
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facial appearance regarded as an indication of mood or feeling <his face took on a somewhat sad cast when we asked how his ill wife was faring>
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