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Synonyms for glow
gloʊglow
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
glow
Light, strictly denoting a form of radiant energy, is used as a general term for any luminous effect discernible by the eye, from the faintest phosphorescence to the blaze of the noonday sun. A flame is both hot and luminous; if it contains few solid particles it will yield little light, tho it may afford intense heat, as in the case of a hydrogen-flame. A blaze is an extensive, brilliant flame. A flare is a wavering flame or blaze; a flash is a light that appears and disappears in an instant; as, a flash of lightning; the flash of gunpowder. The glare and glow are steady, the glare painfully bright, the glow subdued; as, the glare of torches; the glow of dying embers. Shine and shining refer to a steady or continuous emission of light; sheen is a faint shining, usually by reflection. Glimmer, glitter, and shimmer denote wavering light. We speak of the glimmer of distant lamps through the mist; of the shimmer of waves in sunlight or moonlight. A gleam is not wavering, but transient or intermittent; a sudden gleam of light came through the half-open door; a glitter is a hard light; as, the glitter of burnished arms. A sparkle is a sudden light, as of sparks thrown out; scintillation is the more exact and scientific term for the actual emission of sparks, also the figurative term for what suggests such emission; as, scintillations of wit or of genius. Twinkle and twinkling are used of the intermittent light of the fixed stars. Glistening is a shining as from a wet surface. Illumination is a wide-spread, brilliant light, as when all the windows of a house or of a street are lighted. The light of incandescence is intense and white like that from metal at a white heat.
Synonyms:
blaze, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinklingAntonyms:
blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadow
Princeton's WordNet
freshness, glownoun
an alert and refreshed state
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incandescence, gall, lambency, insolence, novelty, radiance, luminescence, crust, gleaming, impudence, gleam, cheekiness, glowing, impertinence, freshnessluminescence, glownoun
light from nonthermal sources
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incandescence, radiance, luminescence, freshness, gleaming, gleam, lambency, glowingincandescence, glownoun
the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
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incandescence, radiance, luminescence, freshness, gleaming, gleam, lambency, glowingglownoun
a feeling of considerable warmth
"the glow of new love"; "a glow of regret"
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incandescence, radiance, luminescence, freshness, gleaming, gleam, lambency, glowingglownoun
a steady even light without flames
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incandescence, radiance, luminescence, freshness, gleaming, gleam, lambency, glowingradiance, glow, glowingnoun
the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
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refulgence, lambency, incandescence, refulgency, luminescence, freshness, effulgence, shine, gleam, gleaming, radiance, glowing, radiancygleam, gleaming, glow, lambencyverb
an appearance of reflected light
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radiance, incandescence, lambency, luminescence, glimmer, gleaming, gleam, glowing, freshnessglowverb
emit a steady even light without flames
"The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden"
glow, beam, radiate, shineverb
have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
"Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna"
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smooth, shine, beam, reflect, diversify, ray, radiate, strike, burn, broadcast, smoothen, glitter, air, polish, gleam, transmit, glint, fall, glisten, sendburn, glowverb
shine intensely, as if with heat
"The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning"
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shine, beam, burn up, radiate, burn, cut, incinerate, sunburn, sting, combust, burn down, burn off, bite, cauterize, cauterise, fireglowverb
be exuberant or high-spirited
"Make the people's hearts glow"
glow, beam, radiate, shineverb
experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
"She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness"
Synonyms:
smooth, shine, beam, reflect, diversify, ray, radiate, strike, burn, broadcast, smoothen, glitter, air, polish, gleam, transmit, glint, fall, glisten, send
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glowverb
Synonyms:
be incandescentglowverb
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shine brightlyglowverb
glowverb
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be ardent, be warm, feel intenselyglownoun
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incandescence, white heatglownoun
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brightness, bright colorglownoun
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ardor, vehemence, impetuosity, fervency, fervor, enthusiasm
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "glow":
glimmer, shine, preheat, shard, gleam, luminescence, brightness, sliver, glare, sparkle
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#233 | send | |
#478 | air | |
#613 | light | |
#960 | fire | |
#1174 | flash | |
#1232 | fall | |
#1324 | cut | |
#2480 | ray | |
#3336 | reflect | |
#3856 | broadcast | |
#3880 | smooth | |
#3884 | strike | |
#4835 | polish | |
#4915 | burn | |
#5471 | beam | |
#6971 | flame | |
#8848 | bite | |
#9051 | shine | |
#9616 | transmit | |
#9651 | glow | |
#9736 | novelty | |
#11898 | brightness | |
#12379 | shining | |
#14424 | glitter | |
#14457 | sting | |
#15546 | blaze | |
#16069 | illumination | |
#16276 | crust | |
#16632 | flare | |
#17533 | sparkle | |
#18433 | glowing | |
#20263 | glare | |
#21252 | gall | |
#22685 | radiance | |
#24571 | sheen | |
#25242 | freshness | |
#29626 | twinkle | |
#29664 | flicker | |
#30718 | luster | |
#32267 | diversify | |
#32287 | preheat | |
#33648 | glimmer | |
#34001 | shimmer | |
#35783 | gleaming | |
#40719 | sunburn | |
#44576 | sliver | |
#45294 | radiate | |
#46663 | glistening | |
#48023 | gleam | |
#51448 | luminescence | |
#54185 | twinkling | |
#54529 | shard | |
#56223 | glint | |
#56309 | scintillation | |
#69948 | insolence | |
#101627 | glisten | |
#107919 | incinerate | |
#119460 | combust | |
#120619 | impudence | |
#146956 | incandescence | |
#159655 | impertinence | |
#209248 | effulgence | |
#225824 | cauterize | |
#257374 | smoothen |
How to use glow in a sentence?
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
‘I saw Anne Frank and Peter van Pels in Westerbork. They were always together. (…) In Westerbork Anne was lovely, so radiant that her beauty flowed over into Peter. (…) Perhaps it’s not the right expression to say that her eyes were radiant. But they had a glow, if you know what I mean. And her movements, her looks, had such a lilt to them that I often asked myself: Can she possibly be happy? She was happy in Westerbork, though that seems almost incredible.’
Wishing on a star is simulating a desired future, if Bertram Malle then wish for something that Bertram Malle can control, Bertram Malle might strengthen Bertram Malle goal and initiate planning and persistence ; if Bertram Malle wish for something Bertram Malle can not control, Bertram Malle might at least have the momentary glow of an imagined world.
In this new round of negotiations we want a solution where ... Cyprus will glow as a shining example of cultural, religious and linguistic example between Christian and Muslim communities.
Those noble men who falsehood dread In wealth and glory ever grow, As flames with greater brightness glow With oil in ceaseless flow when fed.
Translations for glow
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- توهجArabic
- hřát, být nadšený, vyzařovat, zářit, vypadat nadšeněCzech
- glødDanish
- abstrahlen, glühen, leuchtenGerman
- λάμψηGreek
- brilasEsperanto
- iluminar, arder, estar al rojo vivo, resplandecer, fulgir, irradiar, brillo, fulgurar, brillarSpanish
- درخشانPersian
- hehkuFinnish
- éclat, lueurFrench
- glowIrish
- világítHungarian
- cahayaIndonesian
- alone, luminescenza, ardore, luccichio, calore, splendoreItalian
- לַהַטHebrew
- 輝きJapanese
- meridiemLatin
- tūwhā, kokomeaMāori
- gloedDutch
- glødeNorwegian
- poświataPolish
- brilhoPortuguese
- iradiaRomanian
- пылать, сия́ть, свече́ние, свети́ться, рдеть, сия́ние, пыла́тьRussian
- glSwedish
- మిణుగురుTelugu
- เรืองแสงThai
- parıltıTurkish
- світінняUkrainian
- phát sángVietnamese
- שייַנעןYiddish
- 辉光Chinese
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