glower

1. 1.

   an angry stare

   Synonymsglare

   Broaderstare

Other forms of glower

plural

glowers·

past tense

glowerred·

present participle

glowerring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about glower

What does glower mean?

glower means "look at with a fixed gaze". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in glower?

glower has 2 syllables: glo-wer. The stress falls on "glo". In IPA it is /ˈɡlaʊɚ/.

What is another word for glower?

Close synonyms include glare, frown, lour, lower, glare. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glower a common word?

glower is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.