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Definition: Glowering |
GloweringAdjective1. Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glowering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Synonyms: GloweringSynonyms: dark (adj), dour (adj), glum (adj), moody (adj), morose (adj), saturnine (adj), sour (adj), sullen (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sullenness | Grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish; in the sulks; Noun: out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Glowering |
| English words defined with "glowering": darkly ♦ gloweringly. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "glowering": Glower. (references) |
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| "Glowering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.98% of the time. "Glowering" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 92.98% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.02% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "glowering": dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "glowering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | finster blickend (louring, scowling). (various references) | |
Manx | fergagh (angry, ferocious, furious, hothead, hot-tempered, indignant, passion, raging). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oweringglay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Glowering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Glawari. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glowering" (pronounced glou"ering) |
| 5 | -l ou" er i ng | flowering. |
| 4 | -ou" er i ng | cowering, devouring, empowering, powering, scouring, showering, souring, towering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, administering, altering, anchoring, angering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reglowing. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-i-l-n-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: growling, lowering, roweling. | |
-2 letters: glowing, growing, loggier, niggler, wiggler, wriggle. | |
-3 letters: eloign, eringo, ginger, glower, goring, gringo, ignore, leggin, legion, legong, linger, logger, loggie, logier, longer, lowing, neroli, niggle, ogling, region, reglow, rowing, wigeon, wiggle, winger. | |
-4 letters: eloin, enrol, genro, giron, going, goner, gorge, grego, groin, growl, grown, ingle, irone, liger, liner, lingo, loner. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-i-l-n-o-r-w" | |
+3 letters: waterlogging. | |
+4 letters: woolgathering. | |
+5 letters: woolgatherings. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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