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# frown

verb (frown, frowns, frowned, frowning); noun (a frown, frowns)

«frown» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To frown is to bring your eyebrows together and wrinkle your forehead because you are cross, worried, puzzled or thinking hard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#m1)
2. A frown is this look on your face. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#m2)
3. To frown on or upon something is to disapprove of it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories a frown shows a character's feelings without words: anger, worry, confusion. In emotional-literacy lessons pupils read faces: a frown is the opposite of a smile. Phrases: «frown at», «frown on», «a deep frown», «turn that frown upside down».

### Examples

- The teacher frowned at the noisy class. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x1)
- She frowned as she tried to solve the puzzle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x2)
- Why the frown? Are you all right? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x3)
- Dad frowned when he saw the muddy floor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x4)
- Running in the corridor is frowned upon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x5)
- Turn that frown upside down! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x6)
- He looked at the map with a puzzled frown. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/#x7)

### Note

Regular verb. Rhymes with «brown». A frown is not always anger; it can mean thinking or worry, so look at the rest of the story.

## In Jewish tradition

Here God says He will not look at Israel with an angry face.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads this as God's promise to accept those who return to Him in repentance.

### Examples

- Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; I will not frown upon you; for I am merciful, saith the LORD, I will not bear grudge for ever. (Prophets JER.3.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frown/#x1)

### Note

Regular verb. Rhymes with «brown». A frown is not always anger; it can mean thinking or worry, so look at the rest of the story.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «frown» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frown/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«frown» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/frown.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «frown» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frown/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«frown» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/frown.html) on Mova free.