Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
- 2intransitive verb
To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.
- 3transitive verb
To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.
- 4noun
A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl.
- 5noun
Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.
- 6noun
a facial expression of dislike or displeasure
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- 7verb
look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
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