downcast

Synonyms

bad, blue, brokenhearted, cast down, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, doleful, down, downhearted, droopy, forlorn, gloomy, glum, hangdog, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, heavyhearted, inconsolable, joyless, low, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched;

Antonyms

blissful, buoyant, buoyed, cheerful, cheery, chipper, delighted, glad, gladdened, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, jubilant, sunny, upbeat;

Near Antonyms

ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical);

blithe, blithesome, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthful;

excited, thrilled;

hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine;

encouraged, heartened;

animated, bouncing, energetic, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy;

content, gratified, pleased, satisfied;

beaming, grinning, laughing, smiling;

Related Words

aggrieved, distressed, troubled, uneasy, upset, worried;

despairing, hopeless, sunk;

disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited;

suicidal;

dolorous, lachrymose, lugubrious, plaintive, tearful;

regretful, rueful;

agonized, anguished, grieving, wailing, weeping;

black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, desolate, dismal, dreary, elegiac (also elegiacal), funereal, gray (also grey), morbid, morose, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen;