glowering

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• glowering — adj. having a cheerless aspect or disposition. Syn: dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• glowering — [[t]gla͟ʊərɪŋ[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If you describe a person as glowering, you mean they look angry and bad tempered. [WRITTEN] ...his glowering good looks. 2) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If you describe a place as glowering, you mean that it… …   English dictionary

• Glowering — Glower Glow er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glowered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glowering}.] [Cf. {Gloar}.] to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. Thackeray. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• glowering — glow|er|ing [ glaurıŋ ] adjective 1. ) looking very angry 2. ) dark and threatening: the glowering cloud …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• glowering — Synonyms and related words: beetle browed, black, black browed, dark, dejected, dour, dumpish, frowning, glum, grim, grum, lowering, melancholy, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, scowling, sulky, sullen, surly …   Moby Thesaurus

• glowering — adj. glaring, scowling, frowning glow·er || glaÊŠÉ™(r) v. look at with an angry expression, scowl, stare sullenly, frown …   English contemporary dictionary

• glowering — UK [ˈɡlaʊərɪŋ] / US [ˈɡlaʊrɪŋ] adjective looking very angry …   English dictionary

• glowering —  quarrelsome. Exm …   A glossary of provincial and local words used in England

• glowering — adjective showing a brooding ill humor (Freq. 1) 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 …   Useful english dictionary

• dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• gloweringly — adverb in a glowering manner he stared gloweringly at this morning s headlines • Derived from adjective: ↑glowering * * * adverb Etymology: glowering (present participle of glower) (I) + ly …   Useful english dictionary