FROWN
\fɹˈa͡ʊn], \fɹˈaʊn], \f_ɹ_ˈaʊ_n]\
Definitions of FROWN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
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To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.
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To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.
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A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl.
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Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.
By Oddity Software
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To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
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To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.
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To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.
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A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl.
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Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.
By Noah Webster.
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A scowl; stern look.
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To contract the brows as a result of displeasure, etc.; scowl; lower.
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To rebuke by a stern look; to suppress by scowling.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To wrinkle the brow, as in anger: to look angry.
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To repel by a frown.
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A wrinkling or contraction of the brow in displeasure, etc.: a stern look.
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FROWNINGLY.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To rebuke indignantly; commonly with down.
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To knit the brow, as in displeasure; scowl; threaten; lower.
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Frowning.
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Frownly.
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A wrinkling of the brow, as in anger.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. A wrinkling of the brow in displeasure, rebuke, sternness, &c.; a scowl;—any expression of displeasure.
