glower
4 synonyms for glower, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To look at someone with an angry expression.
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lour
frown
Etymology
This word comes from an alteration, possibly Scots, of glore, from Middle English glōren, glouren (“to gleam; to glare, glower”); alternatively it may come from glow (“to stare”, now obsolete), ultimately from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language. It is cognate with Low German gloren (“to flicker; to glimmer”), Dut...
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