Without curvature or projection of surface. Of the face or nose.

Of a person's features or appearance: characterized by strongly delineated lines; rough-hewn.

having a meek countenance; mild-faced.

With of. Obsolete.

Perhaps: wrinkled, rugged.

Having an attractive face.

having a face like a platter; also figurative.

Having an attractive or beautiful face; pretty. Also figurative.

Of a person: having a full or plump face. Also (occasionally) in extended use.

Of a person. (a) Having a beautiful or attractive face; beautiful, good-looking. (b) Having a fair or light-coloured complexion.

Forming adjectives with the sense ‘that has (a) bright ——’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as bright-cheeked, bright-coloured, bright-faced, bright-h…

having a crab face.

(see crab-faced adj.).

= owlish, adj.

Puffed out, puffy.

figurative and in figurative contexts. Unpolished, unrefined. Also: (of a person's face or features) strong, angular.

Having a face like that of an angel; having a beautiful, sweet, or innocent face.

Having a round face.

Of a person's features or appearance: rough-hewn, craggy; weather-beaten; strongly marked. Now frequently: attractively masculine.

Having a rough face; with a rough surface (in various senses of rough, adj.). Also figurative.

Presenting a half-face or profile. Of a coin: Having a profile stamped upon it; hence, of persons, having a thin, pinched face. So half-faced groat…

Said of the face. Lean and pinched.

having a gaunt or hungry-looking face.

Having a broad face.

Having a face like that of a dog.

= weaselly, adj. Only in combination weaselled-coloured, weaselled-faced adjs.

Having the face out of line with the neck and chest; also, that has or makes a wry face.

having distorted features.

having an unpleasing face or aspect, ugly.

Chiefly literary. Having a face characteristic of age.

Of a person: having a round full face; (figurative) having a dreamy or distracted expression. Of a clock, etc.: having a pale face or dial…

Having a face like that of a monkey.

attributive. = chitty-faced, adj.

Having a thin pinched face; child-faced, girl-faced.

having a grotesque or humorously distorted face (see sense B. 3).

Bloat: Puffed, swollen, inflated, esp. with self-indulgence. Hence bloat-faced adj. (In modern writers an echo of Shakespeare's word since that has…

having a fat sleek face.

Having a blue or bluish face.

having a narrow or sharp-featured face, often with a severe or hostile expression.

in past participle = chiselled, adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.

Having a pale smooth face; effeminate-looking.

? = flaberkin, adj.

Having a baby face. Also, of a quality or characteristic: possessed by a person having a baby face. Cf. chitty-faced, adj.

Having a broad flat face.

Round-faced; plump and well-rounded.

Resembling a monkey or pug dog; (of a person) having such a face or nose; (of a feature) flat, squat, ‘pug’.

having a gaunt or haggard appearance.

having an unhappy, disappointed, or exaggeratedly solemn facial expression.

Haggard; having a gaunt or worn appearance, esp. from fatigue, worry, illness, or old age. In early use also: †ugly, deformed (obsolete).

having a clear and healthy-looking complexion; having a youthful, innocent appearance; (also) of or relating to such an appearance.

Having or characterized by a pale, plump, or bloated face or complexion.

(of a person) that has a pudding face (see pudding face n.).

Having a fat face. Of persons. †Also figurative (nonce-use) of land, with allusion to the sense fat, adj. 9a, fertile.

Having a gaunt or worn appearance, esp. from fatigue, worry, illness, or old age.

Of the face or looks: Suggestive of mental acuteness or sharpness.

Having a wide, well-rounded face; not sharp-featured. Esp. in extended use: having a face revealing or suggesting qualities of frankness, candour, or…

having an appearance suggesting frankness, candour, or simplicity of character; cf. with (an) open face at sense 6b.

figurative. Having clear and sharp outlines, as if cut with a chisel.

Resembling the blade of a hatchet; spec. (of the face) narrow and sharp-featured. Also in hatchety-faced adj. (cf. hatchet-faced adj.).

Having bad or distorted features; misshapen.

Wiped, brushed; smoothed; clean-cut, sharp-cut; polished, burnished; neat, trim, spruce.

having a face or end featuring a clock; having a face resembling that of a clock; round-faced.

With reference to form only (without implication of cutting or piercing). Of features: Emaciated, peaked, thin.

Of a person or a person's temperament, behaviour, etc. Of facial features: believed to indicate a pleasure-loving nature; spec. (of the lips) thick…

Weasel-like. Also weaselly-looking.

Of facial features: believed to indicate keen responsiveness to pleasure derived from the senses. Cf. sensual, adj. 3d.

That recedes (in various senses); sloping backwards; retreating; regressive; = receding, adj.

= cherubimic, adj.

Having pinched or emaciated features.

Like a cherub represented as a child-angel; having a childish innocent face.

having a habit of frowning.

That recedes (in various senses); sloping backwards; retreating.

Of features, expression of countenance, etc.: Indicating weakness of character or intention.

That distorts the features.

= platyopic, adj.

Having a broad flat face.

Designating or having a head with a prominent or projecting profile.