Words to describe facial expressions
- Absent: preoccupied
- Agonized: as if in pain or tormented
- Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire
- Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest
- Beatific: blissful
- Black: angry or sad, or hostile
- Bleak: hopeless
- Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern
- Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent
- Brooding: anxious and gloomy
- Bug eyed: frightened or surprised
- Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed
- Cheeky: cocky, insolent
- Cheerless: sad
- Choleric: hot-tempered, irate
- Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings
- Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor
- Despondent: depressed or discouraged
- Doleful: sad or afflicted
- Dour: stern or obstinate
- Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing
- Ecstatic: delighted or entranced
- Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible
- Fixed: concentrated or immobile
- Gazing: staring intently
- Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive
- Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion
- Grim: fatalistic or pessimistic
- Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness
- Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty
- Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism
- Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant
- Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit
- Jeering: insulting or mocking
- Languid: lazy or weak
- Leering: sexually suggestive
- Mild: easygoing
- Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful
- Pained: affected with discomfort or pain
- Peering: with curiosity or suspicion
- Peeved: annoyed
- Pleading: seeking apology or assistance
- Quizzical: questioning or confused
- Radiant: bright, happy
- Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident
- Sardonic: mocking
- Sour: unpleasant
- Sullen: resentful
- Vacant: blank or stupid looking
- Wan: pale, sickly
- Wary: cautious or cunning
- Wide eyed: frightened or surprised
- Withering: devastating
- Wrathful: indignant or vengeful
- Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling
