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Glower vs Ghastly - What's the difference?

glower | ghastly |

As a verb glower

is to look or stare with anger.

As a noun glower

is an angry stare or glare.

As an adjective ghastly is

like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.

As an adverb ghastly is

in a ghastly manner.

glower

English

Alternative forms

* glour

Verb

(en verb)
  • To look or stare with anger.
    • He must be really angry, just look at him glower .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An angry stare or glare.
    • She sure has an awful glower on her face.

    See also

    * frown * scowl * glare English intransitive verbs

    ghastly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.
  • *(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
  • *:Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.
  • Horrifyingly shocking.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
  • *
  • *:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
  • Extremely bad.
  • :

    • Synonyms

    * lurid

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a ghastly manner.
    • He turned ghastly pale on hearing the news.