Synonyms and Antonyms of glowing
1
giving off or reflecting much light
- enjoyed the warmth of the glowing fire
beaming, bedazzling, bright, brilliant, candescent, clear, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, incandescent, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid
ablaze, ardent, blazing, burning, combusting, fiery, flaming, red-hot
agleam, aglitter, blinding, coruscant, flaring, flashing, flickering, gemmy, glancing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shimmery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, winking
burnished, polished, shined
superbright, ultrabright
blackened, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dimmed, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, somber (or sombre), sunless, tenebrous, unlit
cloudy, shadowlike, shadowy, shady
gray (also grey), leaden, pale, palish
2
having a healthy reddish skin tone
- was glowing after spending an afternoon outside splitting firewood
ashen, ashy, doughy, livid, lurid, mealy, pale, paled, palish, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, sallow, sallowish, wan
3
having or being an outward sign of good feelings (as of love, confidence, or happiness)
- her glowing face made it evident sheʼd been offered the job
brilliant, dazzling, effulgent, gleaming, luminous, refulgent, shining, starry
blithe, blithesome, bright, cheerful, cheery, chipper, gay, gladsome, lightsome, merry, mirthful, optimistic, upbeat
jocund, jovial, laughing, smiling
blooming, rosy
blissful, chuffed [British], delighted, gratified, happy, joyful, joyous, pleased, satisfied, thankful, tickled
blank, flat, listless, stoic (or stoical), unemotional
black, dark, darkening, depressing, dismal, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), melancholy, sullen
frowning, glaring, glowering, lowering (also louring), scowling
4
having or expressing great depth of feeling
- glowing declarations of everlasting love
ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, hot-blooded, impassioned, incandescent, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, superheated, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded
gushing, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, sugary
histrionic, melodramatic
enthusiastic, gung ho, keen, zealous
enamored, infatuated, obsessed
uninhibited, unreserved, unrestrained
frenzied, orgiastic, overemotional, overexcited, overheated
