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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
glowing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a glowing/rosy/pink complexion (=healthy and pink – used about women or children)
in glowing terms (=praising someone or something highly)
▪ Friends and relatives speak of him in glowing terms.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
report
▪ Most performers can read ten glowing reports and one bad, and only remember the nasty one.
▪ Our son's achievement level soared and at the end of the school year he received a glowing report from his teachers.
▪ In return for this hospitality, all they have to do is write a glowing report of their experience.
▪ I had had nothing but glowing reports from her teacher.
▪ These proved very successful and a glowing report came from the Establishment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Despite glowing reviews about the company's core businesses, its shares have fallen.
▪ Stephen always talks in glowing terms of your work.
▪ The young soldiers who returned home gave glowing accounts of Paul's bravery and devotion to duty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Close to, the illusion of glowing feyness dissipated.
▪ Joanna had looked up at him, open adoration in her glowing sapphire eyes.
▪ One of the most important factors for maintaining beautiful skin and a glowing complexion is good circulation.
▪ Ruby laser light stitched the interior of the sanctum like thinnest threads of stronger flame within a dully glowing oven.
▪ Shelton showed us arid, earthy colours, her voice curving from a glowing directness to a snaking near scream.
▪ The circle then disappears wholly, and a glowing red ring of light within marks out the circle of the portal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
glowing

glowing \glowing\ adj.

  1. softly bright or radiant.

    Syn: aglow(predicate), lambent, luminous, lucent.

  2. highly enthusiastic; as, glowing praise.

  3. brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light.

    Syn: fluorescent.

  4. afire; as, glowing embers. [prenominal]

    Syn: burning.

Wiktionary
glowing
  1. 1 That glows or glow. 2 (context figuratively English) Full of praise. n. The action of the verb glow. v

  2. (present participle of glow English)

WordNet
glowing

n. the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface [syn: radiance, glow]

glowing
  1. adj. softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" [syn: aglow(p), lambent, lucent, luminous]

  2. highly enthusiastic; "glowing praise"

Usage examples of "glowing".

An exquisite island, the gem of the Adriatic, hilly and lush, a place of dreamy inlets and translucent, glowing seas.

Francesca, superb in a gown of sea-green silk, drew all eyes, not just because of her lush curves but more so because of the radiant happiness glowing in her eyes, coloring her voice, implicit in her every gesture.

She was suddenly fiercely proud and ambivalently humble, and she was experiencing such a glowing burst of emotion it made her dizzy.

There be passed a quiet afternoon, nursing a light fever in his bunk, thinking of Hardman and his strange southward odyssey, and of the silt banks glowing like luminous gold in the meridian sun, both forbidding and inviting, like the lost but forever beckoning and unattainable shores of the amnionic paradise.

Lying there with nothing but the glowing embers in the fireplace to brighten her chamber, she reviewed her encounter with Antonio Thorndyke.

Not content with running the rental plate and billing for his car, she had spent the past hour acquiring a dossier on the renter, Marvin Argus from Chicago, who now smiled at her from the glowing screen.

The central figure in this sharing of affection was Artemisia, the white of her Grecian gown glowing as if it fed on the little remaining light, and even as I tried to swallow my jealousy, Michael whom she had first called Mishaleaned over her, removing her scarf from about his neck and wrapping it around hers.

Cutter told himself, but then he walked with the track-layers as they bent the iron road through gaps between sediment and basalt stanchions and through the V the graders had cut in soft displaced earth and there, there, there wetly ashine, black but glowing, were the rails.

September, 1955 September, 1955, was the month in which Operation Auca really started, the month in which the Lord began to weave five separate threads into a single glowing fabric for His own Glory.

Set in the backmost wall was a control board and piloting screens, various telltales glowing amber among the mica-washed stones.

Sometimes she still saw it in her dreams: the white face, almost as tall as she, with its glowing red eyes, backswept fringed ears, and catfish whiskers around the toothy, pointed jaws.

Hugh and Barong and Mental emerged from the bathroom, glowing with cleanliness and mental hygiene.

Adepts faced one another, and their staves lashed out in swirling blazes of light, a basketwork of glowing lines surrounding them, swift and deadly.

Boulders too heavy for anyone but Bigfoot to lift come thudding all around her in the middle of the night, torrents of summer-run steelhead the size of dogs, glowing more than glittering, abandoned logging sites, boilers and stacks and flange gears looming up out of the blackberries.

Green, glowing claws reached for the rotted bodies, and black teeth bristled from a gaping maw as the illusion attacked the attackers.