cast down

• abase
• abash
• abject
• abort
• afflict
• afflicted
• aggrieved
• agonized
• ail
• alarm
• all torn up
• anguished
• apathetic
• ass in a sling
• at
• atrabilious
• average
• awe
• bad
• bad-mouth
• baffle
• balk
• base
• baseborn
• batter
• be reduced to
• bear down
• beat
• beat down
• beat the system
• belittle
• bemean
• bench
• black
• blah
• blank
• bleak
• bleeding
• blister
• block
• blow down
• blue
• bomb
• bore
• bother
• break
• break down
• bring down
• bring low
• bring one down
• bring to naught
• broken
• brokenhearted
• brooding
• broody
• bug
• bulldoze
• bully
• bum out
• bummed out
• bump
• bungle
• bury
• bust
• canker
• capsize
• cause setback
• cave in
• chagrin
• chapfallen
• chasten
• cheapen
• checkmate
• cheerless
• chill
• circumvent
• clouded
• come to nothing
• comfortless
• common
• commonplace
• condescend
• confound
• confuse
• conquer
• contemn
• contravene
• cook
• corrupt
• couch
• counterplot
• cow
• crash
• crestfallen
• cross
• crummy
• crush
• cut down to size
• cut to the quick
• damp
• dampen
• dampen spirits
• dampened
• dark
• darken
• darkening
• dash
• dash hopes
• dashed
• daunt
• daunted
• debase
• debauch
• debilitate
• deceive
• decimate
• declass
• declassed
• decline
• decry
• deflate
• degenerate
• degrade
• deign
• deject
• dejected
• delete
• delude
• demean
• demit
• demolish
• demoralize
• demote
• denigrate
• deny
• deplore
• depose
• deprave
• deprecate
• depress
• depressed
• depressing
• derogate
• descend
• desolate
• despairing
• despise
• despondent
• destroy
• destroyed
• deter
• deteriorate
• detract
• detrude
• devaluate
• devalue
• devitalize
• dig
• diminish
• dip
• dirgeful
• dis
• disable
• disappear
• disappoint
• disappointed
• disbar
• discomfit
• disconcert
• disconsolate
• discountenance
• discourage
• discouraged
• discredit
• disenchant
• disgrace
• disgruntle
• dishearten
• disheartened
• dishonor
• disillusion
• disincline
• dismal
• dismay
• dismayed
• disparage
• dispirit
• dispirited
• disprove
• dissatisfy
• distress
• distressed
• distressing
• disturb
• docile
• doleful
• dolent
• dolorous
• dopey
• down
• down in the dumps
• down in the mouth
• downcast
• downgrade
• downhearted
• downplay
• drag
• drag down
• dragged
• draggy
• drain
• drear
• dreary
• drill
• drippy
• drive
• droop
• drooping
• droopy
• drop
• drown
• dull
• dumbfound
• dump on
• dutiful
• dynamite
• dysphoric
• ebb
• edge out
• efface
• elegiac
• embarrass
• embitter
• enervate
• enervated
• enfeeble
• engulf
• erase
• everyday
• excavate
• expunge
• extinguish
• extirpate
• fail
• fall
• fall down on
• fall flat
• fall short of
• faze
• fed up
• feh
• fell
• flat
• flat tire
• flounder
• fluff off
• foil
• force down
• forlorn
• founder
• frighten
• funereal
• gentle
• get down
• gloomy
• glum
• go down
• go to the bottom
• gray
• grieve
• grieving
• grim
• ground
• hamper
• hangdog
• heartbroken
• heartsick
• heartsore
• heavy-hearted
• heavyhearted
• hide
• hinder
• hopeless
• humble
• humiliate
• hurting
• ignoble
• immerse
• impair
• in a blue funk
• in a funk
• in despair
• in pain
• in the dumps
• in the pits
• in the toilet
• inanimate
• inconsolable
• indifferent
• indispose
• injure
• intimidate
• invalidate
• irk
• joyless
• keep under
• knock down
• lachrymose
• lackadaisical
• lackluster
• lamentable
• languid
• languishing
• languorous
• lay
• leave in the lurch
• lessen
• let down
• level
• lifeless
• limp
• listless
• low
• low-down
• low-spirited
• lowborn
• lower
• lugubrious
• make a fool of
• make ashamed
• make blue
• make eat dirt
• make lower
• make one feel small
• mean
• meek
• melancholic
• melancholy
• menial
• mild
• miscarry
• miserable
• mislead
• mock
• modest
• moody
• mopey
• mopish
• mopy
• morbid
• morose
• mortify
• mournful
• mourning
• mow down
• mudsling
• mundane
• murky
• neutralize
• nonplus
• nose out
• not happy
• not show
• nullify
• obliterate
• obscure
• obsequious
• off
• on a downer
• oppress
• oppressed
• ordinary
• outwit
• overawe
• overcome
• overthrow
• overturn
• overwhelm
• painful
• pan
• perturb
• pervert
• pessimistic
• piteous
• pitiful
• plaintive
• play down
• plebeian
• plummet
• plunge
• poor
• poor-mouth
• press
• proletarian
• prosaic
• prostrate
• pull down
• push down
• put a damper on
• put away
• put down
• put end to
• put into a funk
• put one away
• put out
• put out of countenance
• put to shame
• puzzle
• quell
• ram
• reduce
• reduce to tears
• refute
• regress
• regretful
• remove
• repress
• retiring
• reverential
• rip
• ripped
• rub out
• rueful
• ruin
• ruin prospects
• rule out
• run
• run down
• sad
• sadden
• saddened
• sag
• sagging
• sap
• saturnine
• scare
• scatter
• scorn
• scratch out
• scuttle
• servile
• set
• set down
• settle
• shake
• shame
• shave
• shellac
• shipwreck
• shoot down
• shot down
• silence
• simple
• singing the blues
• sink
• skunk
• slack
• slam
• slope
• slothful
• slow
• sluggish
• slump
• smash
• smear
• snub
• sob story
• somber
• sorrowful
• sorry
• spill
• spiritless
• spoil
• squash
• squelch
• stab
• stand up
• stick
• stoop
• strike dumb
• strike out
• stump
• subdue
• subdued
• subjugate
• submerge
• submissive
• subordinate
• subside
• subvert
• succumb
• suicidal
• sullen
• sunk
• surmount
• swamp
• take down
• take down a peg
• taken down
• tame
• tear down
• tear up
• tearful
• teary
• tease
• throw a pall over
• throw cold water on
• throw down
• throw for loop
• thrust
• thwart
• tip over
• topple
• torment
• torn-up
• torpid
• total
• touch bottom
• tristful
• trouble
• troubled
• try
• turn one off
• unassuming
• unbuild
• unconcerned
• undermine
• underwhelm
• undo
• uneasy
• unenthusiastic
• unhappy
• unmake
• unmoved
• unnerve
• unpretentious
• unquiet
• upset
• vanquish
• vex
• victimize
• vitiate
• vulgar
• wailing
• weaken
• weary
• weeping
• weigh
• weigh down
• weighed down
• wipe out
• wistful
• withdrawing
• wither
• woebegone
• woeful
• worried
• wrack
• wreck
• wretched
• zap
• zero

• abet
• above
• activate
• admire
• agree
• aid
• allow
• animated
• approve
• ascend
• assist
• assure
• beaming
• blessed
• blissful
• blithe
• blithesome
• boon
• boost
• bouncing
• build
• build up
• buoyant
• buoyed
• calm
• carefree
• careless
• cavalier
• cheer
• cheered
• cheerful
• cheery
• cherish
• chipper
• clarify
• clean
• cleanse
• clear
• clear up
• comfort
• comforted
• commend
• compliment
• construct
• content
• create
• decent
• delight
• delighted
• develop
• devil-may-care
• dignify
• discourage
• displace
• dissuade
• dry
• easygoing
• ecstatic
• elated
• elevate
• enable
• encourage
• encouraged
• endorse
• energetic
• energize
• enhance
• enlarge
• enlighten
• enraptured
• entranced
• esteem
• euphoric
• exalt
• excite
• excited
• exhilarated
• expand
• explain
• extend
• exuberant
• exultant
• fail
• fight
• fill
• fix
• flatter
• float
• flourishing
• forward
• frisky
• gay
• give up
• glad
• gladden
• gladdened
• gladsome
• gleeful
• go up
• gratified
• grinning
• grow
• halt
• happy
• happy-go-lucky
• hearten
• heartened
• heighten
• help
• higher
• honest
• honor
• hopeful
• improve
• increase
• insouciant
• inspire
• inspirit
• inspirited
• invigorate
• jaunty
• jocose
• jocular
• jocund
• jolly
• jovial
• joyful
• joyous
• jubilant
• laud
• laughing
• lift
• lighthearted
• lightsome
• lively
• lofty
• lose
• make happy
• mend
• merry
• mirthful
• neglect
• noble
• open
• optimistic
• order
• overjoyed
• peppy
• perky
• permit
• place
• please
• pleased
• praise
• pretentious
• promote
• prove
• purify
• push up
• raise
• rapturous
• reassure
• release
• remove
• repair
• respect
• restore
• rhapsodic
• rise
• rosy
• sanguine
• satisfied
• satisfy
• smiling
• soothe
• spirited
• sprightful
• sprightly
• springy
• stimulate
• stop
• strengthen
• succeed
• sunny
• superior
• support
• surrender
• thrilled
• unconcerned
• underwhelm
• up
• upbeat
• upgrade
• uplift
• uplifted
• upright
• urge
• validate
• value
• vital
• vivacious
• win
• yield
• zippy

• verb
  1. To make (a person) discouraged or dejected.
  2. To overthrow, to defeat or bring to ruin.

• He felt cast down after hearing the disappointing news.
• She looked cast down when her proposal was rejected.
• The harsh criticism left the team cast down and discouraged.
• He tried not to appear cast down in front of his friends.
• The sudden loss of support made her deeply cast down.

dampened

sad

sadden

saddened

saddens

Browse the Thesaurus

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z