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glowing adjective [ ˈɡləʊɪŋ ]

• expressing great praise.
• "he received a glowing report from his teachers"
Similar: highly complimentary, highly favourable, enthusiastic, full of praise, commendatory, praising, admiring, lionizing, ecstatic, rapturous, rhapsodic, eulogistic, laudatory, acclamatory, adulatory, fulsome, rave, encomiastical, panegyrical, laudative,
Opposite: critical, unenthusiastic,

glow verb

• give out steady light without flame.
• "the tips of their cigarettes glowed in the dark"
Similar: radiate heat, burn without flames, smoulder,
Origin: Old English glōwan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gloeien and German glühen .


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