glower
Syllables: glow·er/ˈɡlaʊə(ɹ)//ˈɡloʊə(ɹ)/
glower verb: to look or stare with anger.
Verb
glower (third-person singular simple present glowers, present participle glowering, simple past and past participle glowered)
- To look or stare with anger.
- [...] Last Morning I was unco airly out, / Upon a Dyke I lean'd and glowr'd about; / I ſaw my Meg come linkan o'er the Lee, / I ſaw my Meg, but Maggie ſaw na me: [...][1720?], [Allan Ramsay], Patie and Roger: A Pastoral Inscribed to Josiah Burchet Esq; Secretary of the Admiralty, [Edinburgh?]: [Thomas Ruddiman for the author?], →OCLC, page 9
- Now look at this board that I just flung into the dark aisle out o' the way, while Monkbarns was glowering ower a' the silver yonder.1816, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in The Antiquary. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page...
- Synonyms:
- lour
Noun (1)
glower (plural glowers)
- An angry glare or stare.
- She sure has an awful glower on her face.
- [H]e [Rab, a dog] growled and gave now and then a sharp impatient yelp; he would have liked to have done something to that man. But James had him firm, and gave him a glower from time to time, and an intimation of a possible kick;—all the better for James, it kept his eye and his mind off Ailie.1862, John Brown, “Rab and His Friends”, in Spare Hours, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 33
Noun (2)
glower (plural glowers)
- That which glows or emits light.
- Table 45 presents computed relative and absolute values for the spectral radiant emittance of a Nernst glower at T = 1965 and 2000°K (the corresponding emissivities are 0.427 and 0.438).1968, Mikaél’ A[bramovič] Bramson, “Special Infrared Sources”, in Richard B. Rodman, transl., edited by William L. Wolfe, Infrared Radiation: A Handbook for Applications: With a Collection of...
glower meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
glower in Tamil
- கடுஞ்சினமாகப் பார்த்தல், கடும்கோபப் பார்வை, வெறுப்புப் பார்வை, எரிச்சலானப் பார்வை, கட்டுக்கடங்கா கோபத்துடன், புருவம் நெரித்து
glower in Bengali
- রাগান্বিতভাবে তাকানো, ভ্রুকুটি করা
glower in Malayalam
- കോപത്തോടെ നോക്കുക, ദേഷ്യഭാവത്തിൽ സംസാരിക്കുക
glower in Kannada
- ಬಿರುಗಣ್ಣಿನಿಂದ ನೋಡು, ದುರುಗುಟ್ಟಿ ನೋಡು, ದಿಟ್ಟಿಸಿ ನೋಡು, ಕೆರಳಿ ನಿಟ್ಟಿಸು
Examples of glower in a sentence
- Still glowering, he spraddled out of the cabin with the boys after him, and presently indicated one of the small temporary cabins with a jerk of his thumb.1917, T[homas] S[igismund] Stribling, “The Dry Dock”, in The Cruise of the Dry Dock, Chicago, Ill.: The Reilly & Britton Co., →OCLC, pages...
- She glowered at me; nothing would quiet her.1974, Algernon D. Black, “Marriage”, in Without Burnt Offerings: Ceremonies of Humanism, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 107:
- [Charles Francis] Harding was a kindly, quiet man, though he seemed to glower through his pince nez spectacles.1988, Robert W. Topping, “Growth under Edward C. Elliott”, in A Century and Beyond: The History of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind....
- You can get a better view." / "Of the extensive Bannister estate?" she said with a wry tone. / "Of the ranch," he said, a glower showing her that he didn't fully appreciate her comment.2015, Carolyne Aarsen, chapter 6, in The Cowboy’s Homecoming (Love Inspired Books), New York, N.Y.: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 89:
Synonyms of glower
Forms of glower
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | glowers |
| present participle | glowering |
| past participle | glowered |
| past | glowered |
| Noun | |
| plural | glowers |
| alternative form | glour |
| alternative form | glowr |
Origin of glower
From an alteration (possibly Scots) of glore, from Middle English glōren, glouren (“to gleam; to glare, glower”); or from glow (“to stare”) (obsolete), and ultimately from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language. Cognate with Low German gloren (“to flicker; to glimmer”), Dutch gloren, Icelandic glóra. By surface analysis, glow + -er (fossilized frequentative suffix). See more at glare.
From Middle English glouere, equivalent to glow + -er.
Words formed from glower
Words that rhyme with glower
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Questions about glower
- What does glower mean?
- Glower means to look or stare with anger.
- What is glower in Tamil?
- Glower in Tamil is கடுஞ்சினமாகப் பார்த்தல், கடும்கோபப் பார்வை, வெறுப்புப் பார்வை. See Glower meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use glower in a sentence?
- Still glowering, he spraddled out of the cabin with the boys after him, and presently indicated one of the small temporary cabins with a jerk of his thumb.
- What part of speech is glower?
- Glower can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce glower?
- Glower is pronounced /ˈɡlaʊə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of glower?
- The past tense of glower is glowered.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: glower (page history and authors); glower (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Glower (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glower (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glower (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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