frowners
People showing displeasure
People who frown—those wearing expressions of displeasure, disapproval, or concentration.
The word appears most often in contrast with smilers or in descriptions of crowds and audiences: The frowners in the back row weren't buying his argument.
Chronically dissatisfied people
- grumblersPeople who complain habitually
- gripersPeople who complain often
- whinersHabitual vocal malcontents
- moanersChronic vocal complainers
bellyachers · grouches · sourpusses · complainers · protesters · dissenters · agitators · rebels
People glaring with displeasure
- criticsThose who evaluate work
- detractorsPeople who criticize
- objectorsPeople who formally disagree
- censurersThose who blame harshly
reproachers · rebukers · naysayers · tut-tutters · judges · moralists · scolds · nitpickers
Those assuming negative outcomes
- doomsayersThose predicting disaster
- defeatistsThose anticipating inevitable failure
- worrywartsChronic anxiety-prone people
- melancholicsThose habitually gloomy
brooders · mopes · wet-blankets · party-poopers · downers · Eeyores · doubters · fatalists
Those lamenting a death
- bereavedDeprived by death
- grieversThose experiencing bereavement
- weepersThose who shed tears
- wailersThose who cry loudly
lamenters · sufferers · heartbroken · brokenhearted · sorrowful · anguished · despairing · devastated
malcontents
Chronically dissatisfied people
- grumblersPeople who complain habitually
- gripersPeople who complain often
- whinersHabitual vocal malcontents
moaners · bellyachers · grouches · sourpusses · complainers · protesters · dissenters · agitators · rebels · critics
scowlers
People glaring with displeasure
- criticsThose who evaluate work
- detractorsPeople who criticize
- objectorsPeople who formally disagree
censurers · reproachers · rebukers · naysayers · tut-tutters · judges · moralists · scolds · nitpickers · killjoys
pessimists
Those assuming negative outcomes
- doomsayersThose predicting disaster
- defeatistsThose anticipating inevitable failure
- worrywartsChronic anxiety-prone people
melancholics · brooders · mopes · wet-blankets · party-poopers · downers · Eeyores · doubters · fatalists · nihilists
mourners
Those lamenting a death
wailers · lamenters · sufferers · heartbroken · brokenhearted · sorrowful · anguished · despairing · devastated · crestfallen
- frowned uponRegarded with disfavor
- frowned atLooked upon with displeasure