beetling

/'bi:tliɳ/

Thân thiện

His beetling brows gave him a stern expression.

Definition

Adjective 1. Jutting or overhanging: Prominently projecting outward or hanging over something else. * Often used to describe natural features like cliffs or rocks, or architectural features like brows.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The climbers carefully navigated the beetling cliff face.
  • His beetling brows gave him a permanently stern expression.

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in literary or descriptive contexts to evoke a sense of looming, threatening, or impressive overhang.
• It can describe both physical objects and, metaphorically, facial features that project prominently.

Variants and Related Words

• Beetle (verb): To project or overhang; to move quickly.
  • The roof beetled over the old porch.
  • He beetled off down the street.
• Beetle-browed (adjective): Having thick, projecting, or prominent eyebrows.
  • The beetle-browed guard stared at us suspiciously.

Synonyms

• Jutting: Extending out sharply.
• Overhanging: Extending out over.
• Projecting: Sticking out.
• Protruding: Extending beyond the main surface.

Related Phrases

• Beetle off (phrasal verb, informal): To go or move away quickly.
  • I saw him beetle off as soon as the meeting ended.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. jutting or overhanging
   • beetle brows

Từ đồng nghĩa

• beetle