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Glower vs Glimpse - What's the difference?

glower | glimpse |

In lang=en terms the difference between glower and glimpse

is that glower is to look or stare with anger while glimpse is to see or view briefly or incompletely.

As verbs the difference between glower and glimpse

is that glower is to look or stare with anger while glimpse is to see or view briefly or incompletely.

As nouns the difference between glower and glimpse

is that glower is an angry stare or glare while glimpse is a brief look, glance, or peek.

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

    glimpse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brief look, glance, or peek.
  • :
  • *(Samuel Rogers) (1763-1855)
  • *:Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen.
  • *
  • *:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
  • A sudden flash.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Light as the lightning glimpse they ran.
  • A faint idea; an inkling.

    • Verb

    (glimps)
  • To see or view briefly or incompletely.
    • I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.
  • To appear by glimpses.
    • (Drayton)

    Synonyms

    * perceive, notice, detect, spot, catch sight of