Synonyms for glow
gloʊglow

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1. 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, twinkling

   Antonyms:
   blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadow

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1. freshness, glownoun

   an alert and refreshed state

   Synonyms:
   incandescence, gall, lambency, insolence, novelty, radiance, luminescence, crust, gleaming, impudence, gleam, cheekiness, glowing, impertinence, freshness

2. luminescence, glownoun

   light from nonthermal sources

   Synonyms:
   incandescence, radiance, luminescence, freshness, gleaming, gleam, lambency, glowing

3. incandescence, glownoun

   the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised

   Synonyms:
   incandescence, radiance, luminescence, freshness, gleaming, gleam, lambency, glowing

4. glownoun

   a feeling of considerable warmth

   "the glow of new love"; "a glow of regret"

   Synonyms:
   incandescence, radiance, luminescence, freshness, gleaming, gleam, lambency, glowing

5. glownoun

   a steady even light without flames

   Synonyms:
   incandescence, radiance, luminescence, freshness, gleaming, gleam, lambency, glowing

6. radiance, glow, glowingnoun

   the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface

   Synonyms:
   refulgence, lambency, incandescence, refulgency, luminescence, freshness, effulgence, shine, gleam, gleaming, radiance, glowing, radiancy

7. gleam, gleaming, glow, lambencyverb

   an appearance of reflected light

   Synonyms:
   radiance, incandescence, lambency, luminescence, glimmer, gleaming, gleam, glowing, freshness

8. glowverb

   emit a steady even light without flames

   "The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden"

   Synonyms:
   shine, beam, burn, radiate

9. 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"

   Synonyms:
   smooth, shine, beam, reflect, diversify, ray, radiate, strike, burn, broadcast, smoothen, glitter, air, polish, gleam, transmit, glint, fall, glisten, send

10. burn, glowverb

    shine intensely, as if with heat

    "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning"

    Synonyms:
    shine, beam, burn up, radiate, burn, cut, incinerate, sunburn, sting, combust, burn down, burn off, bite, cauterize, cauterise, fire

11. glowverb

    be exuberant or high-spirited

    "Make the people's hearts glow"

    Synonyms:
    shine, beam, burn, radiate

12. 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

Matched Categories

1. • Feel
   • Feeling
   • Good Health
   • Light
   • Luminosity
   • Radiate

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1. glowverb

   Synonyms:
   be incandescent

2. glowverb

   Synonyms:
   shine brightly

3. glowverb

   Synonyms:
   burn, be hot

4. glowverb

   Synonyms:
   be ardent, be warm, feel intensely

5. glownoun

   Synonyms:
   incandescence, white heat

6. glownoun

   Synonyms:
   brightness, bright color

7. glownoun

   Synonyms:
   ardor, vehemence, impetuosity, fervency, fervor, enthusiasm

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1. List of paraphrases for "glow":

   glimmer, shine, preheat, shard, gleam, luminescence, brightness, sliver, glare, sparkle

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1. James Thurber:

   There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

2. Marco Rubio:

   It is easy to talk tough on national security, you can't make the sands glow in the dark if you don't have bombs. You can't attack terrorists if you don't know where they are.

3. Winston Churchill:

   We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

4. Andrew Schneider:

   Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt.

5. Jamie Foster:

   Animals, including humans, rely on our microbes to maintain a healthy digestive and immune system, we do not fully understand how spaceflight alters these beneficial interactions. The UMAMI experiment uses a glow-in-the-dark bobtail squid to address these important issues in animal health.