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pout

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of pout

1 a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval
  • That storekeeper's face seems to be in a permanent pout.
Synonyms of pout

face, frown, grimace, lower (also lour), mouth, mug, scowl
Words Related to pout

flinch, squinch, wince

growl, snarl

rictus, simper, smirk

scoff, sneer

glare, glower, look, stare
Near Antonyms of pout

grin, laugh, smile
2 pouts plural a state of resentful silence or irritability
  • She stayed in the pouts all day.
Synonyms of pout

grouch, pet, snit, sulk, sulkiness, sullenness
Words Related to pout

blues, dumps, mopes

surliness

biliousness, crankiness, crossness, crotchetiness, grouchiness, grumpiness, huffiness, irascibility, irascibleness, irritability, irritableness, peevishness, perverseness, perversity, pettishness, petulance, surliness, testiness, waspishness

cantankerousness, disagreeableness, fretfulness, orneriness
Near Antonyms of pout

cheerfulness, gaiety (also gayety), gladsomeness, high-spiritedness, lightheartedness, perkiness

affability, agreeableness, amenity, amicability, cordiality, friendliness, geniality, graciousness, pleasantness, sociability, sociality

amiability, amiableness, good-humoredness, good-naturedness, good-temperedness

pout

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of pout

1 to extend outward beyond a usual point
  • Her lips pouted as she glared at him silently.
Synonyms of pout

bag, balloon, beetle, belly, billow, bulge, bunch, jut, overhang, poke, pouch, project, protrude, stand out, start, stick out, swell
Words Related to pout

dome

blow up, inflate

dilate, distend, expand

mushroom, snowball

elongate, extend, lengthen, stretch
Near Antonyms of pout

compress, condense, constrict, contract, shrink
2 to silently go about in a bad mood
  • pouted and didn't say a word to anyone all morning
Synonyms of pout

grump, mope, sulk
Words Related to pout

brood, dwell (on), mull (over), muse (over), ponder

frown, glower, lower (also lour), scowl

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