glow

1. (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
Related Words: experience, feel

2. (verb) be exuberant or high-spirited; "Make the people's hearts glow"
Related Words: experience, feel

3. (verb) emit a steady even light without flames; "The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden"
Related Words: emit light, fluoresce, radiate

4. (verb) esp. of the complexion: show a strong bright color, such as red or pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna"
Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine
Related Words: appear, look, seem

5. (noun) a feeling of considerable warmth; "the glow of new love"; "a glow of regret"
Related Words: feeling

6. (verb) shine intensely, as if with heat; "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning"
Synonyms: burn
Related Words: beam, gutter, shine

7. (noun) light from nonthermal sources
Synonyms: luminescence
Related Words: brightness, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness

8. (noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
Synonyms: glowing, radiance
Related Words: aureole, corona, light, visible light, visible radiation

9. (noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
Synonyms: incandescence
Related Words: light, visible light, visible radiation

10. (noun) an alert and refreshed state
Synonyms: freshness
Related Words: good health, healthiness

11. (noun) an appearance of reflected light
Synonyms: gleam, gleaming, lambency
Related Words: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine



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