downcast vs elegiac

downcast

adj
  • Feeling despondent. 

  • Looking downwards. 

verb
  • To cast from supertype to subtype. 

  • To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. 

noun
  • A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine. 

  • A cast from supertype to subtype. 

elegiac

adj
  • Expressing sorrow or mourning. 

  • Of or relating to an elegy. 

noun
  • A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter. 

How often have the words downcast and elegiac occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )