pout

1. 1.

   be in a huff and display one's displeasure

   “She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted”

   Synonymssulkbrood

   Narrowergrizzle
2. 2.

   make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

   “mop and mow”

   “The girl pouted”

   Synonymsmopmow

   Broadergrimace

Other forms of pout

plural

pouts·

past tense

pouted·

present participle

pouting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pout

What does pout mean?

pout means "a disdainful grimace". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pout?

pout has 1 syllable: pout. In IPA it is /ˈpaʊt/.

What is another word for pout?

Close synonyms include moue, wry face, eelpout, horned pout, hornpout. 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 pout a common word?

pout is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pout?

3 words rhyme with pout. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.