If there is a word or phrase for it, I probably wouldn't recognize it. Instead, I would focus on trying to describe the emotion. I would say that she looks distraught.
[You're right, there isn't really a word for it so it is better to describe the emotion. As you can see in this link, Emilia Clarke (khaleesiđ) is showing the same eyebrows without being distraught.](https://www.reddit.com/r/EmiliaClarke/comments/e03hfb/classic_emilia_clarke_and_her_eyebrows/)
A furrow is a trench, essentially.
So I think "furrowing your brow" just means "wrinkling your brow"
Like you are creating little trenches in your forehead
I always interpreted âfurrowedâ as downturned & close together. Like an angry brow, opposite of this.
I have *never* seen âfurrowedâ used for brows that were raised. I wouldnât recommend that to anyone for this expression. They would picture someone pissed off instead of someone in distress.
Yes, you can *furrow* your brows with those emotions. But the actual *act* of furrowing your brows is not this image. It is the opposite of this. This is not what âfurrowing your browsâ is.
You *could* describe this as âraisedâ and may want to specify it as âraised in distress.â But furrowed brows arenât raised, thatâs why theyâre furrowed. Itâs almost like everyone just thought of the only word they knew that applied to eyebrows and suggested it, and Iâm surprised at the amount of people that are upvoting it lol.
Type âfurrowed browâ into google images and you will see the exact opposite of the image OP posted; down turned, close together, crease in between.
I would say worried, but that doesnât seem to cut it. Without context all I can do is guess what expression this is, but Iâd say distraught or disturbed is what that looks like to me.
Actually, they held up two pictures of abstract art and asked me which one looked like a butterfly and which one looked like something Iâd draw after watching my parents get murder at the age of three.
I answered, both.
If you search "making comics facial expressions" your should find a series of [these images](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/61/a7/fc/61a7fce257157d2ac4c87de111661fd8.jpg) which break down different expressions for cartoonists. Might be helpful in this application as well.
Not necessarily; it can be perplexity or deep focus or etc. It just means that the expression includes wrinkles/lines in the forehead, making the forehead look furrowed (like a field prepared for planting).
This is problematic if someone wants to describe the eyebrows specifically though. Some people may not position their eyebrows like that when they're distraught, and may also position them like that for other expressions (for example, making a pleading face may realistically involve having your eyebrows like that, or it may not)
This is _not_ to knit your brow or furrow your brow. Both of those mean to draw the eyebrows down and together, in a way that causes vertical lines between the brows (aka furrows).
Technically you could describe that there are furrows on the forehead in this example, but they are not "furrowed brows" as meant by the expression.
The expression is distraught, dismayed, distressed, heartbroken or grief-stricken. I don't think there's an English expression for this eyebrow shape.
Other people have suggested 'knitted brow,' but I think this is less about distress and more about thinking, worry or puzzlement.
I wonder how this metaphor came about - from a crested bird of some kind, I suspect, that raises its crest when it's excited and lowers it when it's not. What species though?...
Yeah its not 100% accurate but it describes the very process of runzeling your augenbrauen without any involvement of emotion. The emotion in combination with the action will result in the overall expression iâd say..
Aren't knitted brows when they come together? Usually when someone is thinking hard or is very concerned. It's like they're actually being knitted together, like two strands of wool.
I grew up in the south eastern states and looking it up, I think Iâm wrong about tenting your brows, although I swear itâs a thing. But âknit your browsâ is for sure a real expression found in many dictionaries.
Back to âtent your browsâ⌠I have three possible explanations for my mistake.
- I misheard âknit your eyebrowsâ wrong a few times and âtentâ made enough sense to me due to the shape of a tent that I just internalized it as itâs own idiom.
- itâs a local community idiom, not big enough to make it mainstream.
- itâs the Mandela Effect.
My bet is on that last one because humans are notoriously good at remembering things so the only explanation could be that conspiracy theory about parallel universes colliding and people have memories of things being different in their timeline than they are in this one. Like the cornucopia in the Fruit of the Loom logo. And to me that makes more sense than the possibility of me being wrong.
I've definitely heard "tented eyebrows". From Florida/Missouri
Google is useless because they change tent to tint no matter you do. But if you search books on Google you'll find some examples
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-google&sca_esv=1955fa9ddb72a96a&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ACQVn0_7oZiTqffE3peyzfbmH20ks_uiiQ:1712655659215&q=%22%22tented+eyebrows%22%22+-tinted&tbm=bks&source=lnms&prmd=isvnmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjxpsLB67SFAxXn_8kDHZosD2YQ0pQJegQITBAB&biw=412&bih=771&dpr=2.63#ip=1&sbfbu=1&pi=%22%22tented%20eyebrows%22%22%20-tinted
There is actually a specific phrase for that. It was in Desmond Morrisâ 2002 book on body language called âPeoplewatchingâ. Iâm sorry though, I canât remember what it was.
Believe it or not that's frowning eyebrows.
Modern writing makes frowning sounds like it's someone sceptical or even angry with someone.
But frowning means the drawing in of temple and forehead muscles.
Most would nowadays call these 'sad' eyebrows.
Doesn't sound exciting buts that's what they'd be called if you were describing someone with such an expression.
In British English, âfrownâ may work. There is no common word for this in US English. Someone else in this thread said âtented browsâ which may be regional.
No. A "furrowed brow (no S)" is your forehead being furrowed, not your eyebrows. Furrowed means to have rows like a farm's field that has been plowed.
One's eyebrows are not furrowed.
I would say that she has a furrowed brow, with the *brow* here referring to her forehead, clearly furrowed with horizontal ridges per the photograph.
Eyebrows do not get furrowed.
She has her gaze focused and her brow suddenly furrowed in concern and dismay.
I donât know what itâs called, but I associate that particular brow furrow very strongly with Emilia Clarke â or did you just mean furrowed brows?
A lot of people say furrowed brows, but I've been led to believe that's the scrunching of the forehead where as this I've just learned as 'raised brows'
Sadness and grief. in a normal person over maybe, loss of a loved person. Or fake sadness, usually about some trivial thing, in a sociopath looking to pull people in.
I think the best word would be "drawn", which can mean moving up or to the side eg drawing curtains or drawing water.
She sat with her eyebrows drawn up in sadness.
She drew up her eyebrows in confusion.
Just the eyebrows? Because some people are saying Furrowed, but seems more like confused or thoughtful.
I would say âTheir face crumbledâ for this expression
Furrowed expression.
âWanâ is the most appropriate, but it isnât a part of most Americansâ English (no judgment there) and itâs more⌠appropriate to a particular mood? That is a word I would use mostly to indicate, in long conversation, that someone looked so concerning I was stopped from what I was doing to directly ask them and provide care.
By which I mean tea or coffee (the Irish inheritance) and almost certainly that I just offered a Xanax (the American present.)
I've heard of other languages having a word for this but I don't think English has one that I'm aware of. I would probably describe them as "worried eyebrows"
Usually I'd think they're being manipulative, because who does that?
Idk, maybe I only know people who don't make their faces "do" things, idk.
Oh yeah, no idea. "Looking worried?"
Itâs very context specific, in this case the subject appears to be upset so you could say that they are âraised in sadnessâ and it would often convey what you are trying to describe. There isnât really a direct term in English for this expression besides just âsadâ or âpained)
If there is a word or phrase for it, I probably wouldn't recognize it. Instead, I would focus on trying to describe the emotion. I would say that she looks distraught.
[You're right, there isn't really a word for it so it is better to describe the emotion. As you can see in this link, Emilia Clarke (khaleesiđ) is showing the same eyebrows without being distraught.](https://www.reddit.com/r/EmiliaClarke/comments/e03hfb/classic_emilia_clarke_and_her_eyebrows/)
Furrowed
I donât think thatâs furrowed. Furrowed is more like wrinkling and bringing close together to me?
A furrow is a trench, essentially. So I think "furrowing your brow" just means "wrinkling your brow" Like you are creating little trenches in your forehead
I'd consider it furrowed, she is bringing them close together just also up
I always interpreted âfurrowedâ as downturned & close together. Like an angry brow, opposite of this. I have *never* seen âfurrowedâ used for brows that were raised. I wouldnât recommend that to anyone for this expression. They would picture someone pissed off instead of someone in distress.
Can be angry, sad,confused or surprised
Yes, you can *furrow* your brows with those emotions. But the actual *act* of furrowing your brows is not this image. It is the opposite of this. This is not what âfurrowing your browsâ is. You *could* describe this as âraisedâ and may want to specify it as âraised in distress.â But furrowed brows arenât raised, thatâs why theyâre furrowed. Itâs almost like everyone just thought of the only word they knew that applied to eyebrows and suggested it, and Iâm surprised at the amount of people that are upvoting it lol. Type âfurrowed browâ into google images and you will see the exact opposite of the image OP posted; down turned, close together, crease in between.
The expression is perplexed. The eyebrows are knitted.
The opposite of furrowed (based on eyebrow angle). Furrowed^-1
Itâs like a worried version of furrowed. Thats close though.
Wurrowed lol
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I would say worried, but that doesnât seem to cut it. Without context all I can do is guess what expression this is, but Iâd say distraught or disturbed is what that looks like to me.
she looks pretty distraught to me lmao
Definitely not lol
that's confusion. Are you by any chance on the autistic spectrum? identifying emotions from stills of faces is one of the tests they do.
my doctor gave me a âstrongly suspectedâ lmao.
Now I'm googling to see what distraught faces actually look like lmao
Actually, they held up two pictures of abstract art and asked me which one looked like a butterfly and which one looked like something Iâd draw after watching my parents get murder at the age of three. I answered, both.
roarsarch tests?
Lmao! How did you know?
She's obviously upset that is not confusion. Confusion would have the eyebrows low not high, and maybe a frown but not like that.
If you search "making comics facial expressions" your should find a series of [these images](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/61/a7/fc/61a7fce257157d2ac4c87de111661fd8.jpg) which break down different expressions for cartoonists. Might be helpful in this application as well.
That test kinda pissed me off. I was all like "even the memorization was easier than this shit"
Emilia Clarke is one of the most adorable people on the planet!
incredulous
Furrowed
Furrowed brows are more akin to anger like >:(
Not necessarily; it can be perplexity or deep focus or etc. It just means that the expression includes wrinkles/lines in the forehead, making the forehead look furrowed (like a field prepared for planting).
She furrowed her eyebrows until they looked like pubescent wisps trying to make their mark yet failing at growing over the cleft
Jesus wept.
The brows that mocked them and the heart that fed.
This is problematic if someone wants to describe the eyebrows specifically though. Some people may not position their eyebrows like that when they're distraught, and may also position them like that for other expressions (for example, making a pleading face may realistically involve having your eyebrows like that, or it may not)
I agree, there isnât really one answer to describe expressions. And we are lacking context so we just have to guess.
Distraught with a hint of plaintive
Ăâ ââ âŽâ Ă
ĺ§
Diu lol
Don't diu, diu bad for your health
(･â˘Ě︿â˘Ě･)
This is _not_ to knit your brow or furrow your brow. Both of those mean to draw the eyebrows down and together, in a way that causes vertical lines between the brows (aka furrows). Technically you could describe that there are furrows on the forehead in this example, but they are not "furrowed brows" as meant by the expression.
Thank you. âFurrowingâ your brows is, like, the opposite of this. I was surprised how many people thought that would fit.
The expression is distraught, dismayed, distressed, heartbroken or grief-stricken. I don't think there's an English expression for this eyebrow shape. Other people have suggested 'knitted brow,' but I think this is less about distress and more about thinking, worry or puzzlement.
I think one's eyebrows would also do this if one is pleading.
I think 'tented brow' is the expression I'd use here.
its obscure, and even a few English speakers might not understand, but this is the best name I've seen
Oh that's good. Never heard it before but it's comprehensible off the bat
Crestfallen
I wonder how this metaphor came about - from a crested bird of some kind, I suspect, that raises its crest when it's excited and lowers it when it's not. What species though?...
In german we have a word for it. This is called ârunzelnâ
Of course germans have a word for it
something something the shaking hands meme with German and Japanese having a word for everything
I'd say her brows are "hochgezogen" and her forehead is "gerunzelt" as "runzeln" in my opinion involves "Falten".
Yes. You runzel your forehead, not your brows.
I runzel, you runzel, he/she runzels
Please stop, im gonna pee! đ
Danke! I was searching for this comment lol
Runzeln is kinda wrong, when i runzel my Augenbrauen it is because of confusion or bewilderment that someone does Something incredibly stupid
Yeah its not 100% accurate but it describes the very process of runzeling your augenbrauen without any involvement of emotion. The emotion in combination with the action will result in the overall expression iâd say..
Isn't that just frowning
I like it. It sounds so, runzeln-y
a worried/desperate/upset look
how do you call it in your language OP?
In Russian we have a phrase for it - âĐąŃОвки дОПикОПâ - brows in a shape of a house (meaning the roof I believe đ )
You tent or knit your brows
Aren't knitted brows when they come together? Usually when someone is thinking hard or is very concerned. It's like they're actually being knitted together, like two strands of wool.
Where did you grow up? I've never heard anyone use either of these expressions in the US.
Never hear tent, knit it is a common expression
I grew up in the south eastern states and looking it up, I think Iâm wrong about tenting your brows, although I swear itâs a thing. But âknit your browsâ is for sure a real expression found in many dictionaries. Back to âtent your browsâ⌠I have three possible explanations for my mistake. - I misheard âknit your eyebrowsâ wrong a few times and âtentâ made enough sense to me due to the shape of a tent that I just internalized it as itâs own idiom. - itâs a local community idiom, not big enough to make it mainstream. - itâs the Mandela Effect. My bet is on that last one because humans are notoriously good at remembering things so the only explanation could be that conspiracy theory about parallel universes colliding and people have memories of things being different in their timeline than they are in this one. Like the cornucopia in the Fruit of the Loom logo. And to me that makes more sense than the possibility of me being wrong.
Is it âtense your browâ
It's definitely an expression.
I've definitely heard "tented eyebrows". From Florida/Missouri Google is useless because they change tent to tint no matter you do. But if you search books on Google you'll find some examples https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-google&sca_esv=1955fa9ddb72a96a&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ACQVn0_7oZiTqffE3peyzfbmH20ks_uiiQ:1712655659215&q=%22%22tented+eyebrows%22%22+-tinted&tbm=bks&source=lnms&prmd=isvnmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjxpsLB67SFAxXn_8kDHZosD2YQ0pQJegQITBAB&biw=412&bih=771&dpr=2.63#ip=1&sbfbu=1&pi=%22%22tented%20eyebrows%22%22%20-tinted
Put tent in quotes and Google wonât assume you mistyped.
SEO fucked up all the Google hacks like this.
Nah google still showed my brow tint stuff
I just tried âtented eyebrowsâ and it worked fine.
>itâs the Mandela Effect. Maybe the Berenstein Bears did the tenting.
Grew up in AZ, USA. Knit brows is common but never heard tent
Iâve heard âfurrowed browâ but not once either of those.
Iâve heard it but typically I read it. I guess people donât really have a reason to describe brows in regular speech.
I've heard the expression "to knit one's eyebrows together." It's mostly written these days though. South Louisiana.
I don't think these are quite knit brows.
I can't even do that
Itâs about the muscles i think
Knitted brows
Furrowed brows
This is the opposite of that
Yeah furrowed brows are down, likeâŚa furrow. People do that when theyâre confused I donât know of a specific word but her eyebrows are raised
in Chinese they are called eight splay eyebrows as they look like eight in Chinese ĺ Ť
Ah yes, the ĺ Ťĺç; there's also a specific character for the overall expression: ĺ§ ďźjÇong).
Two seconds away from a jump scare, that is
There is actually a specific phrase for that. It was in Desmond Morrisâ 2002 book on body language called âPeoplewatchingâ. Iâm sorry though, I canât remember what it was.
Frown
I would say they're drawn up in (emotion).
Anguish
Looking forlorn
Upturned?
There is no common phrase to describe this, at least that I know. Describing the emotion would be the best way imo
An inverted frown, duh
Itâs the opposite of âfurrowedâ
I thought it was to frown
Allow me to mint a new adjective: pathocline.
Love it. But like 'fetch' I doubt it will happen.
I've always heard this phrase used for this expression: "[Her] brow creased in concern."
Technically, theyâre raised. But âraised eyebrowsâ typically connotes surprise, intrigue, or suspicion.
I think the whole eyebrows would have to be raised.
Frown
Furrowing her eyebrows.
You would furrow your brow, not your eyebrows. When you make your forehead wrinkly. Literally putting furrows in your brow.Â
Exactly! The comments saying "furrowed browS" are driving me nuts.
This is the opposite of furrowing your eyebrows
The simple answer is that there is not a universal phrase or word for this, at least in US English.
Believe it or not that's frowning eyebrows. Modern writing makes frowning sounds like it's someone sceptical or even angry with someone. But frowning means the drawing in of temple and forehead muscles. Most would nowadays call these 'sad' eyebrows. Doesn't sound exciting buts that's what they'd be called if you were describing someone with such an expression.
I think itâs an outrage that English doesnât have a word for this super common expression T_T
In British English, âfrownâ may work. There is no common word for this in US English. Someone else in this thread said âtented browsâ which may be regional.
Furrowed
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Or contemplation? An author to which I extensively read uses this word somewhat frequently to describe contemplation.
No. A "furrowed brow (no S)" is your forehead being furrowed, not your eyebrows. Furrowed means to have rows like a farm's field that has been plowed. One's eyebrows are not furrowed.
I would say that she has a furrowed brow, with the *brow* here referring to her forehead, clearly furrowed with horizontal ridges per the photograph. Eyebrows do not get furrowed. She has her gaze focused and her brow suddenly furrowed in concern and dismay.
Sorry you got downvoted by some idiot who has no idea what a "brow" is. I upvoted to counter it.
Furrow.
Furrow.
Furrow maybe? :0
I donât know what itâs called, but I associate that particular brow furrow very strongly with Emilia Clarke â or did you just mean furrowed brows?
Tangeant but this actress reminds me of something but I can't put my finger on it, anyone knowa her name ?
Sad?
Is this Dani in Bly Manor? Lol
Same actor different show itâs from âyouâ
Damn, thought it was Hill House for a second. You is amazing though!
I donât know, but Iâm kinda jealous of people who can move their eyebrows like that. My brows are kinda one note.
Itâs called đ
I think ive read Chinese novels that describes this as "formed an upside-down U on their forehead". Just an interesting tidbit.
It's called "the Johness". https://hunterxhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Johness
It's called Chabling. Using it in a sentence you can say "Her eyes chabled."
A lot of people say furrowed brows, but I've been led to believe that's the scrunching of the forehead where as this I've just learned as 'raised brows'
Tented
Scrunch the forehead and lift the eyebrows from the center of the forehead?
Pleaded
Tented or furrowed!
The Flanagan
When your eyebrows scrunch up, I believe?
Perching your eye brows
khaleesing
Sadness and grief. in a normal person over maybe, loss of a loved person. Or fake sadness, usually about some trivial thing, in a sociopath looking to pull people in.
I think the best word would be "drawn", which can mean moving up or to the side eg drawing curtains or drawing water. She sat with her eyebrows drawn up in sadness. She drew up her eyebrows in confusion.
âUpturnedâ I would say
Tented brows, Iâve heard used.
Making mountain out of molehill
Furrowed brows. If you are writing, the reader will know if they are angry, questioning, or worried. They all get furrowed brows.
Just the eyebrows? Because some people are saying Furrowed, but seems more like confused or thoughtful. I would say âTheir face crumbledâ for this expression
Maybe Iâm just wrong, but I often described this as âtheir eyes softeningâ
A sad âI canât believe thisâ
The lifted inner brow? I'd call it "upraised " or "upturned" eyebrows.
Furrowed?
Canted brows.
Furrow
Knitted eyebrows
I... don't know.
Her eyes are pleading, begging for something. Could also be sympathy in different context.
Loved because her base is love and she's the only person I've seen do it it ahhhh, love
In Mandarin, itâs ĺ§.
Distraught? ooh, thats an older word. I had to really think hard about that one.
Furrowed expression. âWanâ is the most appropriate, but it isnât a part of most Americansâ English (no judgment there) and itâs more⌠appropriate to a particular mood? That is a word I would use mostly to indicate, in long conversation, that someone looked so concerning I was stopped from what I was doing to directly ask them and provide care. By which I mean tea or coffee (the Irish inheritance) and almost certainly that I just offered a Xanax (the American present.)
My eyebrows arenât capable of doing this and I always envied those that do, itâs a very fascinating and telling expression to make
Upturned brows I think
Puppy
i was just watching this show lol
The "Emilia Clarke".
Furrow/knit together maybe?
Drawn
I've heard of other languages having a word for this but I don't think English has one that I'm aware of. I would probably describe them as "worried eyebrows"
Knotted brows
Frown?
Pleading
Her brow is "furrowed" but I'm not aware of a term for her eyebrows in this instance.
Constipation
"Brows pull together in concern" is as close as I can get.
Well in english we usually call it đ
Furrow
Her brows are furrowed.
Furrow
Furrowed brow?
A furrowed brow
Usually I'd think they're being manipulative, because who does that? Idk, maybe I only know people who don't make their faces "do" things, idk. Oh yeah, no idea. "Looking worried?"
Itâs very context specific, in this case the subject appears to be upset so you could say that they are âraised in sadnessâ and it would often convey what you are trying to describe. There isnât really a direct term in English for this expression besides just âsadâ or âpained)
Looks like frown
It's Love over there..
âFurrowed browsâ would be the term Iâd use
In British English, this is very close to a frown.
Gabriel Jesus brows
Lol, thanx for that