Definitions for frown

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frown frown

Spelling: [froun]

IPA: /fraʊn/

Frown is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in frown (fnorw).

Definitions for frown

noun

1. a frowning look; scowl.
2. any expression or show of disapproval:

verb (used with object)

1. to express by a frown:
2. to force or shame with a disapproving frown:

verb (used without object)

1. to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
2. to look displeased; have an angry look.
3. to view with disapproval; look disapprovingly (usually followed by on or upon):

Origin of frown

1350-1400; Middle English frounen Old French froignier, derivative of froigne surly expression, probably Gaulish *frognā; compare Welsh ffroen, Old Breton fron nostril, Old Irish srón nose Ce

Examples for frown

Early the next morning, “frown,” Jai Johany Johnson, is living up to his nickname in the hotel restaurant.

He looked at me curiously for an instant--then with a frown.

With this new evidence of his generous virtue, the frown passed from his brows.

It made Andy frown, and for an instant he thought of calling Buck back.

And yet in the end Pop was able to muster a fairly good imitation of a frown.

Am I so utterly disreputable that you find it necessary to frown on me so darkly?

A smile, a contented smirk, even a frown—something—but there was nothing.

“Lilly… Ledbetter…” we whisper to ourselves as we frown at men.

I saw him frown, and suddenly he slapped his thigh as a man does when thought overtakes him.

He gave no direct reply, but certainly did not frown on the request.