glowing
adjective
1 glowing street lights | the glowing coals:
bright, shining, radiant, glimmering, flickering, twinkling, incandescent, candescent, luminous, luminescent, phosphorescent;
lit up, lighted, illuminated, ablaze;
aglow, smoldering;
informal glowy;
literary lambent, lucent, rutilant, ardent, fervid;
archaic fervent.
2 his glowing cheeks:
rosy, pink, red, reddish, rose red, flushed, blushing;
healthy-looking, fresh, radiant, blooming, ruddy, high-colored, florid;
hot, burning;
archaic sanguine;
rare erubescent, rubescent, rubicund.
▷antonyms pale.
3 the glowing colors of the textiles:
vivid, vibrant, bright, brilliant, colorful, rich, intense, strong, radiant, warm, flaming.
▷antonyms dull.
4 a glowing report:
highly complimentary, highly favorable, enthusiastic, full of praise, commendatory, praising, admiring, lionizing, ecstatic, rapturous, rhapsodic, eulogistic, laudatory, acclamatory, adulatory;
fulsome;
informal rave;
rare encomiastical, panegyrical, laudative.
▷antonyms critical; unenthusiastic.