glowering

Questions about glowering

What does glowering mean?

glowering means "showing a brooding ill humor".

How many syllables are in glowering?

glowering has 3 syllables: glo-we-ring. The stress falls on "glo". In IPA it is /ˈɡlaʊɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for glowering?

Close synonyms include dark, dour, glum, moody, morose. 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 glowering a common word?

glowering 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.