frown upon

1. 1.

   look disapprovingly upon

   Synonymsfrown on

   Broaderdisapprove

Questions about frown upon

What does frown upon mean?

frown upon means "look disapprovingly upon".

What is another word for frown upon?

Close synonyms include frown on. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is frown upon a common word?

frown upon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.