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browed

browed

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Having eyebrows that look a certain way
  • adjective
  • /braʊd/
: cejas
  • 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

browed positive

Morphology

browed = brow (transparent) = brow + ed

Regular adjectival formation from the noun 'brow' with '-ed' meaning 'having' or 'characterized by', so the meaning is directly derivable.

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.