Meanings
adjectivedownlooked (comparative more downlooked, superlative most downlooked)
comparative more downlooked · superlative most downlooked
- obsoleteHaving a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen.
He was downlooked, embarrassed , and avoided the eyes of those who looked hard at him.
1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC1 more example
Discolouring all she view'd, in Tawney dress'd; / Down-look'd, and with a Cuckow on her Fist
1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
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