Definitions for glowing

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glowing glow·ing

Spelling: [gloh-ing]

IPA: /ˈgloʊ ɪŋ/

Glowing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in glowing (ggilnow).

Definitions for glowing

noun

1. a light emitted by or as if by a substance heated to luminosity; incandescence.
2. brightness of color.
3. a sensation or state of bodily heat.
4. a warm, ruddy color of the cheeks.
5. warmth of emotion or passion; ardor.

adjective

1. incandescent.
2. rich and warm in coloring:
3. showing the radiance of health, excitement, etc.:
4. warmly favorable or complimentary:

verb (used without object)

1. to emit bright light and heat without flame; become incandescent.
2. to shine like something intensely heated.
3. to exhibit a strong, bright color; be lustrously red or brilliant.
4. (of the cheeks) to exhibit a healthy, warm, ruddy color.
5. to become or feel very warm or hot.
6. to show emotion or elation:

Origin of glowing

before 1000; Middle English glowynge, Old English glowende. See glow, -ing²

Examples for glowing

Away from the glowing testimonials, the fight for trans equality remains gritty.

Reassured, he drew out an electric torch and set it glowing.

When she came in her cheeks were glowing from her run in the frosty air.

Schwend had described Glavan in glowing terms to US intelligence in 1946, but, clearly, the two men had had a falling out.

Now the whole Cathedral was glowing with a reddish yellow light.

The feedback you got each week from the judges was always so glowing.

The Duke disappeared into a darkened side room, where he sat inches from a glowing television screen, gazing at golf.

My mailman, David, is the sunny-faced sort who brightens my block each afternoon, no matter the weather, with a glowing smile.

The sun was down, and the sky was a great, glowing mass of color.

Her eyes were glowing with even more than their usual lusters.