ADJ
- angelic, beautiful, handsome, lovely, pleasant, pretty, sweet
- plain, ugly, terrible
- colourless, grey, pale, pallid, white
- flushed, pink, red, ruddy
- Her face was flushed after her run
- tanned
- dark
- sallow
- heart-shaped, oval, round, square
- bearded, freckled, unshaven
- lined, wrinkled
- pock-marked, raddled
- fat, plump
- She had a plump, pretty face
- gaunt, haggard, lean, pinched, thin, wizened
- craggy, rugged
- a craggy face with deep-set eyes and bushy brows
- elfin
- Her short hair suited her elfin face
- painted
- happy, smiling
- tear-stained, tear-streaked
- human
VERB + FACE
- tilt, turn
- She turned her face away. He tilted her face up to his
FACE + VERB
- look, peer, stare
- A face peered round the door at him
PREP
- in the/sb's ~
- The ball hit him in the face. His eyes were sunken in his gaunt face
- on the/sb's ~
- She put some powder on her face
PHRASES
- a sea of faces (= a large crowd of faces)
- From the stage, he looked down at a sea of faces
ADJ
- animated, cheerful, friendly, grinning, happy, radiant, smiling
- anxious, frightened, troubled
- angry, furious
- hard, set, stern
- His face was set and hard
- grave, serious
- long, sad
- The news for the company isn't good, judging from the long faces in the boardroom
- funny
- She made a funny face and gave a snorting sort of laugh
- honest, kind
- expectant
- rapt
- expressive, open
- She looked at the honest, open face of her husband
- blank, expressionless, impassive
- His face remained impassive, so strong was his self-control
VERB + FACE
- make, pull
- What are you pulling a face at now?
- search
- He searched her face for some clue as to what she meant
FACE + VERB
- brighten, glow, light up
- Her little face lit up when I gave her the present
- beam, smile
- The face smiled benignly at him
- cloud, crumple, drop, fall
- Her face crumpled and she started crying. ' I can't come, ' she said. His face fell
- clear
- His face cleared and she smiled back
- darken, harden, set
- Her face darkened with anger. His face set in grim lines
- soften
- The father's face softened as he hugged his little boy
- flame, flush, go red, redden
- Jack's face flushed with embarrassment
- pale
- Her face paled with fright
- contort, crease, pucker, tighten, twist
- Her face contorted in pain
- betray sth, reveal sth
- Her face betrayed no emotion at all
PREP
- on sb's ~
- She had a big smile on her face
PHRASES
- a face like thunder (= a very angry face)
- Mr Hibbs came in with a face like thunder
ADJ
- front, rear
- North, South, etc.
- steep
- We slowly climbed the steep face of the crag
- cliff, rock
- clock
PHRASES
- face down/downwards, face up/upwards
- She placed the cards face downwards on the table
ADJ
- familiar, (same) old
- I looked around for a familiar face. I'm so bored with seeing the same old faces!
- different, fresh, new, strange, unfamiliar
- famous, well-known
- a restaurant where you often see famous faces
ADJ
- human
- bureaucracy with a human face
- acceptable
- unacceptable
- Social deprivation is the unacceptable face of capitalism
- true
- changing
- the changing face of Britain