glowering

4 definitions found

glowering - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

  glowering \glowering\ adj.
     having a cheerless aspect or disposition.
  
     Syn: dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen.
          [WordNet 1.5]

glowering - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  glowering
      adj 1: 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" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum,
             moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]

glowering - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "glowering":
     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