Glowering

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  glowering
       adj : 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}, {glum},
              {moody}, {morose}, {saturnine}, {sour}, {sullen}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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