Synonyms of glowing

glowing 1 of 2

adjective

1

as in shining

giving off or reflecting much light

enjoyed the warmth of the glowing fire

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shining
• luminous
• dazzling
• bright
• shiny
• radiant
• gleaming
• shimmering
• flickering
• flashing
• brilliant
• blazing
• sparkling
• glittering
• glistening
• effulgent
• incandescent
• refulgent
• beaming
• lambent
• lustrous
• splendid
• burning
• clear
• lucent
• flaming
• blinding
• candescent
• lucid
• fiery
• fulgent
• polished
• shined
• sheeny
• bedazzling
• twinkling
• glancing
• glaring
• winking
• ardent
• shimmery
• sunny
• glimmering
• scintillating
• red-hot
• burnished
• scintillant
• flaring
• glinting
• gemmy
• glistering
• aglitter
• combusting
• agleam
• ablaze
• coruscant
• ultrabright
• superbright

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dim
• dull
• dark
• lackluster
• blackened
• dusky
• darkened
• gloomy
• obscure
• somber
• unlit
• dimmed
• pitch-black
• darkish
• murky
• darkling
• obscured
• lightless
• pitch-dark
• shadowy
• pale
• darksome
• cloudy
• gray
• unbright
• shady
• unbrilliant
• tenebrous
• leaden
• sunless
• shadowlike
• palish

2

as in red

having a healthy reddish skin tone

was glowing after spending an afternoon outside splitting firewood

Synonyms & Similar Words

• red
• ruddy
• tanned
• warm
• rosy
• flush
• blooming
• sanguine
• florid
• brown
• pink
• blushing
• flushed
• bronzed
• rubicund
• pinkish
• suntanned
• full-blooded
• blowsy
• cherubic
• bloomy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pale
• ashen
• pallid
• sallow
• lurid
• livid
• ashy
• wan
• pasty
• white
• doughy
• waxen
• mealy
• waxy
• palish
• peaked
• peaky
• whitened
• paled
• blanched
• sickly
• sallowish
• anemic
• sick
• cadaverous
• bloodless
• white-faced
• whey-faced

3

as in bright

having or being an outward sign of good feelings (as of love, confidence, or happiness)

her glowing face made it evident she'd been offered the job

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bright
• radiant
• smiling
• gleaming
• cheerful
• sunny
• dazzling
• aglow
• shining
• joyful
• laughing
• beaming
• merry
• happy
• luminous
• brilliant
• satisfied
• delighted
• starry
• optimistic
• cheery
• effulgent
• blissful
• refulgent
• rosy
• upbeat
• mirthful
• pleased
• jovial
• blithe
• chipper
• joyous
• blooming
• thankful
• blithesome
• gay
• lightsome
• gladsome
• jocund
• gratified
• chuffed
• tickled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• blank
• listless
• flat
• dark
• black
• gray
• stoic
• unemotional
• gloomy
• dismal
• sullen
• depressing
• melancholy
• glum
• glaring
• frowning
• darkening
• lowering
• glowering
• scowling

4

as in warm

having or expressing great depth of feeling

glowing declarations of everlasting love

Synonyms & Similar Words

• warm
• passionate
• fervent
• intense
• passional
• emotional
• charged
• fiery
• ardent
• blazing
• enthusiastic
• flaming
• burning
• incandescent
• demonstrative
• religious
• impassioned
• fervid
• feverish
• vehement
• torrid
• superheated
• perfervid
• red-hot
• sentimental
• sugary
• warm-blooded
• on fire
• hot-blooded
• saccharine
• sloppy
• mushy
• gushy
• mawkish
• zealous
• gushing
• sappy
• melodramatic
• histrionic
• obsessed
• schmaltzy
• uninhibited
• gung ho
• infatuated
• keen
• enamored
• maudlin
• orgiastic
• unreserved
• frenzied
• unrestrained
• overheated
• overexcited
• overemotional

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cold
• cool
• dispassionate
• impassive
• dry
• objective
• detached
• impersonal
• emotionless
• unemotional
• reserved
• undemonstrative

glowing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of glow

1

as in burning

to be on fire especially brightly

the coals glowed red-hot

Synonyms & Similar Words

• burning
• blazing
• flaming
• flickering
• shining
• gleaming
• firing
• smoldering
• combusting
• igniting
• glinting
• going up in flames
• melting
• glittering
• glistening
• flashing
• scorching
• shimmering
• sparkling
• glimmering
• beaming
• kindling
• wavering
• cooking
• radiating
• lighting (up)
• twinkling
• glaring
• baking
• brightening
• sparking
• enkindling
• charring
• roasting
• catching
• flaring (up)
• broiling
• sweltering
• deflagrating
• sputtering
• beating (down)
• scintillating
• guttering

2

as in blushing

to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)

when they found out he had won the tournament, his parents glowed with pride

Synonyms & Similar Words

• blushing
• flushing
• blooming
• reddening
• crimsoning
• turning color
• coloring
• disconcerting
• rouging
• mortifying
• ruddling
• humiliating
• discomfiting
• embarrassing
• incarnadining
• abashing
• fazing
• chagrining

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of glowing

Adjective

Its light is rather that of a glowing molten metal than that of a burning furnace. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 July 2026

Several Foamposite sneakers have used glow-in-the-dark details, such as the fan-favorite Galaxy Air Foamposite One, but the upcoming release marks the first time the shoe’s upper has had a fully glowing application. — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 30 June 2026

Verb

Maybe the Scarlet Witch’s glowing red light was just too bright to be upstaged. — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026

Trump is not getting a glowing endorsement on his immigration approach from Americans overall, the new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found. — Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026