GLOWER Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

glower 1 of 2

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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glower

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noun

as in glare

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The most notable is a glowering destroyer that gathers steam during an evening rodeo, clobbering the grandstand and nearby motel almost without warning. —

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024 Actor Manny Jacinto successfully sells the transformation from hapless henchman to glowering evildoer. —

Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 July 2024

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As the anxious, aspiring Cambridge postgrad, Labbadia glowers and snaps and trudges around in a dirty bathrobe, playing a first-person shooter on a handheld gaming console and sullenly bouncing a tennis ball off the wall. —

Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023 The glower, it must be said, has a precedent in the arrest photograph of Hermann Göring, the president of the Nazi Reichstag. —

Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023 See all Example Sentences for glower

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