| Main Entry: | frown |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | scowl |
Synonyms: |
cloud up, do a slow burn, give a dirty look, give the evil eye, glare, gloom, glower, grimace, knit brows, look black, look daggers, look stern, lower, pout, sulk |
Antonyms: |
grin, smile |
| Main Entry: | frown |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disapprove |
Synonyms: |
deprecate, discommend, discountenance, discourage, disesteem, disfavor, dislike, look askance at, not take kindly to, object, show displeasure, take a dim view of |
Antonyms: |
approve, condone, encourage |
| Main Entry: | frowning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scowling |
Synonyms: |
glowering, grim, irritable, sulky |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry, upset |
Synonyms: |
dour, forbidding, frowning, glowering, glum, ominous, scowling, sulky, sullen, threatening |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, happy, pleased |
| Main Entry: | deprecate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | belittle, condemn |
Synonyms: |
cut down to size, depreciate, derogate, detract, disapprove of, discommend, discountenance, disesteem, disfavor, disparage, expostulate, frown, mudsling, not go for, object, pooh-pooh, poor mouth, protest against, put down*, rip*, run down, take dim view of, take down, take exception to |
Antonyms: |
approve, build up, commend, compliment, endorse, laud, praise |
| Main Entry: | dismal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleak, dreary, gloomy |
Synonyms: |
afflictive, black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, horrid, in the pits, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy |
Antonyms: |
bright, cheerful, glad, happy, hopeful, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | glare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give a dirty look |
Synonyms: |
bore, do a slow burn, fix, frown, gape, gawk, gaze, glower, look daggers, lower, menace, peer, pierce, scowl, stare, stare angrily, stare icily, wither |
Antonyms: |
grin, smile |
| Main Entry: | grimace |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a pained expression |
Synonyms: |
contort, deform, distort, frown, make a face, make a wry face, misshape, mouth, mug, scowl, screw up one's face, smirk, sneer |
Antonyms: |
grin, smile |
| Main Entry: | moody |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby, temperamental |
Synonyms: |
angry, cantankerous, capricious, changeable, crabbed, crestfallen, cross, dismal, doleful, dour, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, erratic, fickle, fitful, flighty, frowning, gloomy, glum, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impulsive, in a huff, in the doldrums, introspective, irascible, irritable, lugubrious, melancholy, mercurial, miserable, moping, morose, offended, out of sorts, pensive, petulant, piqued, sad, saturnine, short-tempered, splenetic, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy |
Antonyms: |
balanced, cheerful, happy, overjoyed |
| Main Entry: | morose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, pessimistic |
Synonyms: |
acrimonious, blue*, brusque, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cranky*, cross, dolorous, dour, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, frowning, gloomy, glum, grouchy, gruff, harsh, having blue devils, having the blahs, ill-humored, ill-tempered, in a bad mood, in a blue funk, irritable, low, melancholy, moody, moping, mournful, perverse, perversive, sad, saturnine, singing the blues, snappish, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, taciturn, testy, troubled, ugly |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, friendly, happy, light-hearted, optimistic, uplifted |