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glowering
[glou-er] 
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glower
[glou-er]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | frown |
| Synonyms: | glare, gloom, look, look daggers, lower, scowl, stare, sulk, watch |
| Antonyms: | grin, smile |
| Main Entry: | forbidding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ominous, daunting |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, disagreeable, dour, foreboding, frightening, glowering, grim, hostile, menacing, odious, off-putting, offensive, repellent, repulsive, sinister, threatening, tough, ugly, unapproachable, unfriendly, unpleasant |
| Notes: | forbidding means harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance, while foreboding is a feeling of evil to come |
| Antonyms: | approachable, friendly, undaunting |
| 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: | 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: | grim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance |
| Synonyms: | austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glowering, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, horrid, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, scowling, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, splenetic, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | look |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | examine visually |
| Synonyms: | admire, attend, behold, beware, consider, contemplate, eye, feast one's eyes, flash, focus, gape, gawk, gaze, get a load of, glance, glower, goggle, heed, inspect, mark, mind, note, notice, observe, ogle, peep, peer, pore over, read, regard, rubberneck, scan, scout, scrutinize, see, spot, spy, stare, study, survey, take a gander, take in the sights, tend, view, watch |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore, miss, overlook |
| Main Entry: | murky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, obscure |
| Synonyms: | black, caliginous, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dingy, dirty, dismal, drab, dreary, dull, dun, dusk, dusky, filthy, foggy, foul, fuzzy, glowering, gray, grubby, impenetrable, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, nasty, nebulous, nubilous, overcast, roily, sad, smoky, somber, squalid, stormy, tenebrous, turbid, unclean |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, light, luminous, sparkling, unobscured |
| Main Entry: | scowl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | frown |
| Synonyms: | disapprove, glare, gloom, glower, grimace, look daggers at, lour, lower, make a face |
| Antonyms: | grin, smile |
| Main Entry: | sulk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pout |
| Synonyms: | be down in the mouth, be in a huff, be morose, be out of sorts, be silent, brood, frown, gloom, glower, gripe, grouse, grump, look sullen, lower, moon*, mope, scowl, take on |
| Antonyms: | be happy, grin, smile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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