frowning


Also found in: Dictionary, Idioms, Wikipedia.
Graphic Thesaurus  🔍
Display ON
Animation ON
Legend
Synonym
Antonym
Related
  • adj

Words related to frowning

showing displeasure or anger

Related Words

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
References in periodicals archive ?
In addition, research has also suggested that intentional smiling may reduce effort perception during physical activity in comparison with frowning. However, until we began our latest investigation, no study had looked into the actual effects of facial expressions on movement economy or perceived effort during endurance activity that has a longer duration.
The same is true for frowning less: People who frown less report experiencing more positive feelings.
London, July 25 ( ANI ): Japanese researchers have developed a system, which is capable of manipulating your emotions and personal preferences by presenting you with an image of your own smiling or frowning face.
Why waste all that energy frowning when you could just smile.
The proposition of the dimensional version that smiling can increase a positive affective state, whereas frowning can increase a negative affective state is commonly supported (for reviews, see Adelmann & Zajonc, 1989; Izard, 1990; Laird, 1984; Manstead, 1988; McIntosh, 1996; Winton, 1986).
Who have a picture taken outside a library (in case we're struggling to imagine what one looks like), frowning.
Several Bulgarian dailies circulated last week a picture of Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov frowning as he tries spinach soup at a nursery school in Sofia that he visited together with Fandakova.
Comics and people in our industry don't get old because they're not frowning as much!"
I was standing in my driveway the other day, frowning at the gutter that is slowly attempting to escape from the side of my house.
The patients were then treated with botulinum toxin, commonly known as Botox, to deactivate the muscles in the forehead that cause frowning and asked to read the same statements again.
It seemed so surreal then as the 43-year-old man was trying so hard to look smiling in photos, if not in real life, for a change.AoThere is a heritage that we have incorporated in daily life, that a man is not supposed to laugh or even smile easily, though we [Jordanians] are not people of gloom or unkindness it may look like we are somewhat frowning a lot,Ao he said.He even admitted that his final snapshots were perfect for a AowantedAo poster rather than for personal use.Upon asking the photographer if this was one of a kind, he said that surprisingly it is not, especially for men.Jordanians have earned the reputation of frowning a lot, even in the street.
Far from frowning, a 10-year-old Robert is pictured smiling away on the back row (fifth from right).
Patients were photographed by means of standardized facial photography both at rest and at maximum frowning. The upper and lower limits of the frown lines were marked at maximal frowning.