Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a high and broad brow; hence, of large mental endowments; of great intellectual capacity.

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Examples

  • The image portrayed was of a gaunt, deep-browed man with unruly hair and a small black-comb mustache.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • The image portrayed was of a gaunt, deep-browed man with unruly hair and a small black-comb mustache.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • The image portrayed was of a gaunt, deep-browed man with unruly hair and a small black-comb mustache.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • Madog took him, unquestioning, except that he kept his deep-browed and sharp-sighted old eyes fixed on Cadfael's face all the way across to the Gaye.

    The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

  • On first looking into The Realms of Gold, one sees at once that Miss Drabble, deep-browed and middle-browed, has chosen to rule a wide expanse of private and public life.

    Lost Allusions Ricks, Christopher 1975

  • "Neither," replied a restless, but remarkably broad-foreheaded and deep-browed personage at the opposite side of the table.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

  • There was a deep-browed man rather impatiently turning to face his new visitors.

    Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935

  • One end of the room is lined with deep-browed tomes, of a scientific and medical aspect; a writing-table in the spacious bow-window betrays an air of recent requisition; softly cushioned lounges invite to unstudious repose; within easy reach are picture-papers and the latest poem.

    Love and Life Behind the Purdah 1901

  • Its preachers and painters and poets, its deep-browed men who will find out things, its fire-eyed men who will tell truths that no one wants to hear -- these are the lumber that the world hides away in its attics.

    Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 1893

  • The Count stood under a yellow lamp enveloped in his fur-lined coat, looking with heavy, deep-browed eyes at his young companion.

    The Grey Lady Henry Seton Merriman 1882

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