frown

frown is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
2. intransitive verb. To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.
3. transitive verb. To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.
4. noun. A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl.
5. noun. Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.
6. noun. a facial expression of dislike or displeasure

   Synonyms: scowl

7. verb. look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

   Synonyms: glower, lour, lower

Synonyms

scowl, glower, lour, lower

Common word forms

frowns, frowned, frowner, frownful, frowning, frownless

Words from these letters

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