pout

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of POUT

to extend outward beyond a usual point <her lips pouted as she glared at him silently>

Synonyms bag, balloon, beetle, belly, billow, bunch, jut, overhang, poke, pooch [chiefly dialect], pouch, pout, project, protrude, stand out, start, stick out, swell

Related Words dome; blow up, inflate; dilate, distend, expand; mushroom, snowball; elongate, extend, lengthen, stretch

Near Antonyms compress, condense, constrict, contract, shrink

to silently go about in a bad mood <pouted and didn't say a word to anyone all morning>

Synonyms grump, mope, pout

Related Words brood, dwell (on), mull (over), muse (over), ponder; frown, glower, lower (also lour), scowl; carry on, take on; pet

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