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glowing

glowing

5 4.0
Showing strong praise and approval
  • adjective
  • /ˈɡloʊɪŋ/
translation icon : entusiasta
  • She received glowing recommendations from her professors for her outstanding contributions.
  • glowing review
  • very glowing
  • warm and glowing

He has nothing but a glowing image in your eyes.

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Examples

  • And just being beautiful and radiant, and vibrant and glowing.

  • I mean it's just a warm, glowing place to be!

  • Yeah, it would be a it would be a glowing review of my work.

  • Yeah, it would be a it would be a glowing review of my work.

  • Would you be doing glowing reviews of BBQ joints?

  • Each was as glowing and brimming with bouquets as the love feast he'd laid out for Beloved Babylonian.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • The critic wrote a glowing review of the performance, praising every aspect of it.

  • After the event, many attendees shared glowing feedback about the organizers' efforts.

Synonyms

warm
vsglowing
280 1.0

Showing kindness and affection to others

focuses more on strong praising and high compliment rather than affection
complimentary
vsglowing
18 4.2

Saying good things about someone to show you admire them

is more strongly enthusiastic and highly praising rather than merely polite
congratulatory
vsglowing
14 4.1

Showing praise and happiness for someone's success or good news

is used for strong approval in any context, not only success
praiseful
vsglowing
6.6

Showing approval by saying good things about someone or their work

is more intensely enthusiastic and highly complimentary in tone
encomiastic
vsglowing
  • Formal
9.9

Expressing strong praise, often in formal language

is similar but more broadly enthusiastic, not only formal praise
approbative
vsglowing
  • Formal
8.8

Showing praise or approval

expresses stronger enthusiasm and more highly complimentary feeling

Antonyms

210 3.8

Tending to find faults in people or work

disparaging
  • Offensive
1 7.0

Showing a low opinion of someone or something

How Positive

enthusiastic
175 2.7
glowing
5 4.0
complimentary
18 4.2
favorable
  • US
62 2.8

Surface Forms

glowing positive
glower comparative
glowiest superlative

Morphology

glowing = glow (semi-transparent) = glow + ing

Formed regularly from the verb 'glow' with the participial suffix '-ing', a straightforward adjective formation.

Etymology

The word glowing comes from the old word glow, which means 'to shine' or 'to burn softly'. So when someone gets glowing praise or a glowing review, the praise is like light that 'shines' on them, making them seem very good.