downturned

Examples

• All

• We lift out downturned eyes, stroll more leisurely, pour over these sights.

  Harvard University

• Her expression was tight and closed, her downturned mouth and dry lips, the halo of silver hair.

  Fiction book (1993)

• We're going to do our downturned eyes now.

• Rihanna says how to make downturned eyes not look so tired.

• I remembered Lin's downturned mouth and sad eyes and thought that to love or to molest was a difference only of gesture.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Sagging jowls mirrored the corner of his downturned mouth.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Sam had always looked more like their father with his downturned mouth, discolored teeth, and the same sharp nose, and with the illness, the effect was even stronger.

  Fiction book (2000)

• "The grooves running from Dorothy Huff's nose to her downturned mouth deepened into valleys of bitterness.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Rihanna often styles her makeup to brighten her downturned eyes.

• He looked at her with concern, noticing her downturned mouth and furrowed brow.

Synonyms

D

downward

vsdownturned

79 1.4

Moving or pointing toward a lower position, often about prices and trends

adds an emotional or negative sense beyond mere physical movement

D

downcast

vsdownturned

4 4.5

A look or eyes that point downward, often showing shame

is a general physical tilt that suggests sadness or negative change

D

downward-sloping

vsdownturned

4.1

Going down at a noticeable angle

describes a general facing that implies sadness or decline, not shape

Antonyms

U

upturned

1 4.5

Something that has its bottom facing up, like a boat

How Downward

downturned

1 4.6

level

1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology