browed
- adjective
- /braʊd/
- The media wall lit within minutes, FitzGilbert's heavy-browed face superimposed on the mess of charts.
- beetle-browed
- heavy-browed
- bushy-browed
Examples
-
"What an attractive girl!" Mom said breathlessly, though Felice-Marie was heavyset, dark-browed, rather sullen.
Fiction book (1997) -
Come, loving black-browed night. - Give me my Romeo.
-
This whole huge empire was run out of some back rooms by a few beetle-browed men.
Fiction book (1998) -
Low-browed and heavy in the shoulders.
Fiction book (1990) -
Come, loving, black-browed night.
-
They live in a neighborhood of one-story, low-browed, suspicious-looking ranches.
Fiction book (1997) -
Signor Flame was a tall, black-browed man with graying, curly hair and the dark stare of a hypnotist.
Fiction book (1999) -
Donna Fausta was a large, handsome, practical woman, level-browed and sedate as Minerva or the goddess Roma.
Fiction book (1998) -
Fifty years ago, long before Avram directed the solar reactor at the Weizmann Institute, I imagine he must have been one of those young men—blond, big-browed, keen, and stolid—whose clear idea of their future gives them a marvelous air of command.
Fiction book (2001) -
He has a strong, black-browed appearance that adds to his intense look.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Browed comes from the simple word brow, meaning 'eyebrow' or 'forehead', with the ending -ed that means 'having'. So, browed means 'having a certain kind of brow', as in 'darkly browed' or 'softly browed', which helps describe a person's look.