Thesaurus / glowering
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synonyms for glowering
- frightening
- grim
- menacing
- off-putting
- sinister
- threatening
- foreboding
- hostile
- offensive
- repellent
- tough
- abhorrent
- disagreeable
- dour
- odious
- repulsive
- ugly
- unapproachable
- unfriendly
- unpleasant
- bleak
- cruel
- ghastly
- gloomy
- glum
- grisly
- gruesome
- harsh
- horrid
- ominous
- shocking
- somber
- sour
- stern
- terrible
- austere
- barbarous
- cantankerous
- churlish
- crabbed
- crusty
- dogged
- ferocious
- fierce
- forbidding
- foreboding
- formidable
- frightful
- funereal
- grouchy
- grumpy
- hideous
- implacable
- inexorable
- intractable
- merciless
- morose
- relentless
- resolute
- ruthless
- scowling
- severe
- sinister
- splenetic
- stubborn
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- truculent
- unrelenting
- unyielding
- cloudy
- dark
- dim
- dirty
- dismal
- dreary
- foggy
- fuzzy
- misty
- muddy
- nebulous
- stormy
- black
- caliginous
- cheerless
- darkened
- dingy
- drab
- dull
- dun
- dusk
- dusky
- filthy
- foul
- gray
- grubby
- impenetrable
- lowering
- mucky
- nasty
- nubilous
- overcast
- roily
- sad
- smoky
- somber
- squalid
- tenebrous
- turbid
- unclean
- churlish
- dour
- gloomy
- glum
- grumpy
- hostile
- morose
- petulant
- somber
- surly
- ugly
- bad-tempered
- cheerless
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- cynical
- dismal
- dull
- fretful
- frowning
- gruff
- heavy
- ill-humored
- inert
- irritable
- malevolent
- malicious
- malign
- mean
- moody
- obstinate
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- perverse
- pessimistic
- pouting
- pouty
- querulous
- saturnine
- silent
- sour
- sourpussed
- stubborn
- sulking
- sulky
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- unsociable
- uptight
- abhorrent
- disagreeable
- dour
- foreboding
- frightening
- grim
- hostile
- inhospitable
- menacing
- odious
- offensive
- off-putting
- repellent
- repulsive
- sinister
- threatening
- tough
- ugly
- unapproachable
- unfriendly
- uninviting
- unpleasant
antonyms for glowering
MOST RELEVANT
- bright
- cheerful
- comforting
- encouraging
- gentle
- good
- happy
- joyful
- kind
- light
- nice
- pleasant
- pleasing
- pretty
- sunny
- wonderful
- hopeful
- apparent
- bright
- brilliant
- cheerful
- clean
- clear
- distinct
- good
- happy
- hopeful
- light
- moral
- plain
- pleasant
- luminous
- sparkling
- unobscured
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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START THE QUIZ How to use glowering in a sentence
Clouds of haze moved around, and when the moon came up she seemed to be glowering from her shroud.
THE CHEQUERSJAMES RUNCIMANGrim and serious as it was, with June's cousin glowering at him, Hale could not help smiling.
THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINEJOHN FOX, JR.He might be glowering at the two of us out of yon whin-bush, and I wouldna wonder!
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. 10 (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAnd always there had been the glowering fires of a score of villages.
THE ESCAPE OF A PRINCESS PATGEORGE PEARSONWolf Paw stood glowering at White Bear, his eyes glazing, his breath coming in gasps.
SHAMANROBERT SHEAHe scowled at them; he even turned a glowering look on Captain Candage when he met the latter on the quarter-deck.
BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAYBarney backed glowering to the door; and Old Jimmie, his gray face an expressionless mask, silently followed him out.
CHILDREN OF THE WHIRLWINDLEROY SCOTTShe feared that slow, glowering and dangerous man, whose every word came freighted with obscure and sinister meaning.
WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDSJOHN RUSSELLLarry, taut with the desire to strike, gazed for a moment into the glowering face of the detective.
CHILDREN OF THE WHIRLWINDLEROY SCOTTHe walked up and down from Daniel Boone to the mirror, glowering out from time to time at the rain.
THE OPEN QUESTIONELIZABETH ROBINSWORDS RELATED TO GLOWERING
- austere
- barbarous
- bleak
- cantankerous
- churlish
- crabbed
- cruel
- crusty
- dogged
- ferocious
- fierce
- forbidding
- foreboding
- formidable
- frightful
- funereal
- ghastly
- gloomy
- glowering
- glum
- grisly
- grouchy
- gruesome
- grumpy
- harsh
- hideous
- horrid
- implacable
- inexorable
- intractable
- merciless
- morose
- ominous
- relentless
- resolute
- ruthless
- scowling
- severe
- shocking
- sinister
- somber
- sour
- splenetic
- stern
- stubborn
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- terrible
- truculent
- unrelenting
- unyielding
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.