GLOWER Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

ˈglau̇(-ə)r

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as in to glare

to look with anger or disapproval baseball fans glowering at their TVs as they watched their favorite team lose

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as in to darken

to take on a gloomy or forbidding look the old man just sat in his rocking chair, his face glowering at the prospect of unwanted company

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noun

as in glare

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Recent Examples of glower

Verb

Levin, typically springy, glowered as Wolf told them about how the shutdown had devastated her life. —

Paula Mejía, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026 Muhammad Ali glowering over a fallen Sonny Liston in 1965? —

Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026

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Having finagled an invite from Prater’s steely assistant, Charley (Uma Thurman, sporting an asymmetrical bob and a disgusted glower), Dexter infiltrates the group looking for villains to bring to his kill table. —

EW.com, 10 July 2025 Fast-forward to 2025 and the robot now has slightly different features, including a new more life-like hairdo and a facial expression closer to Trump's trademark glower. —

Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for glower

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Soto’s glaring 15-year contract aside, Stearns has not signed any player to a deal longer than three years.

— Tim Britton, New York Times, 29 May 2026
The contradiction is especially glaring given the growing focus on chronic disease, obesity, and declining health outcomes among American children.

— Sam Raus, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2026