scowl
scowl is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. Face value is 10 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.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
- intransitive verb. Hence, to look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
- transitive verb. To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
- transitive verb. To express by a scowl; as, to scowl defiance.
- noun. The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowing; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
- noun. Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
- noun. a facial expression of dislike or displeasure
- verb. frown with displeasure
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in scowl:
Common word forms
scowls, scowled, scowler, scowlful, scowling
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