glow

glow is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
2. intransitive verb. To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.
3. intransitive verb. To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
4. intransitive verb. To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism.
5. transitive verb. To make hot; to flush.
6. noun. White or red heat; incandscence.
7. noun. Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.
8. noun. Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.
9. noun. Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.
10. noun. an appearance of reflected light

    Synonyms: gleam, gleaming, lambency

11. noun. light from nonthermal sources

    Synonyms: luminescence

12. noun. a feeling of considerable warmth

    "the glow of new love"

    "a glow of regret"

13. noun. the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface

    Synonyms: glowing, radiance

14. noun. a steady even light without flames
15. noun. the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised

    Synonyms: incandescence

16. noun. an alert and refreshed state

    Synonyms: freshness

17. verb. experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion

    "She was beaming with joy"

    "Her face radiated with happiness"

    Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine

18. verb. be exuberant or high-spirited

    "Make the people's hearts glow"

19. verb. emit a steady even light without flames

    "The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden"

20. verb. have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink

    "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna"

    Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine

21. verb. shine intensely, as if with heat

    "The coals were glowing in the dark"

    "The candles were burning"

    Synonyms: burn

Synonyms

gleam, gleaming, lambency, luminescence, glowing, radiance, incandescence, freshness, beam, radiate, shine, burn

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in glow:

gowl

Common word forms

glows, glowed, glower, glowing

Words from these letters

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