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Glare vs. Glower — What's the Difference?

Glare vs. Glower — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Glare and Glower

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Glare

To stare fixedly and angrily.

Glower

To look or stare angrily or sullenly
Glowered at the rude patron.

Glare

To shine intensely and blindingly
A hot sun glared down on the desert.

Glower

An angry or sullen look or stare.

Glare

To be conspicuous; stand out obtrusively
The headline glared from the page.
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Glower

(intransitive) To look or stare with anger.

Glare

To express by staring angrily
He glared his disapproval.

Glower

An angry glare or stare.
She sure has an awful glower on her face.

Glare

A fierce or angry stare.

Glower

That which glows or emits light.

Glare

An intense, blinding light
Under the glare of the spotlights.

Glower

To look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.

Glare

Overwhelming attention or intrusiveness
The glare of publicity.

Glower

An angry stare

Glare

A sheet or surface of glassy and very slippery ice.

Glower

Look at with a fixed gaze;
The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her

Glare

(uncountable) An intense, blinding light.

Glower

Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

Glare

Showy brilliance; gaudiness.

Glare

An angry or fierce stare.

Glare

(telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.

Glare

(US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
A glare of ice

Glare

A viscous, transparent substance; glair.

Glare

(intransitive) To stare angrily.
He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.

Glare

(intransitive) To shine brightly.
The sun glared down on the desert sand.

Glare

(intransitive) To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.

Glare

(transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.

Glare

Smooth and bright or translucent; glary
Skating on glare ice

Glare

To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
The cavern glares with new-admitted light.

Glare

To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon.

Glare

To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.

Glare

To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
Every eyeGlared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.

Glare

A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare.

Glare

A fierce, piercing look or stare.
About them round,A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.

Glare

A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.

Glare

A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.

Glare

Smooth and bright or translucent; - used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.

Glare

Great brightness;
A glare of sunlight
The flowers were a blaze of color

Glare

An angry stare

Glare

A focus of public attention;
He enjoyed being in the limelight
When Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency

Glare

Look at with a fixed gaze;
The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her

Glare

Be sharply reflected;
The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface

Glare

Shine intensely;
The sun glared down on us

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