Glowing vs Glorified - What's the difference?
glowing | glorified |
That glows or glow.
(figuratively) Full of praise.
(glorify)
transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically)
:* The gyroscope is however merely a glorified spinning top ...
:* Voluntary thrift, embodied in industrial insurance, nurtured character, but social insurance was merely a glorified form of poor law legislation.
:* If the captain was only a glorified first aid man as he claimed, the emphasis has to be on the glory he deserved for the way in which he did his job.
English sarcastic terms
As verbs the difference between glowing and glorified
is that glowing is while glorified is (glorify).As adjectives the difference between glowing and glorified
is that glowing is that glows or glow while glorified is transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically).As a noun glowing
is the action of the verb glow.glowing
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- glowing embers
- He received glowing references from his previous employers.
Anagrams
*glorified
English
Verb
(head)- They sang hymns that glorified God.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Her teaching degree was little more than a glorified babysitting course.
- 1959 Andrew Gray, "A treatise on gyrostatics and rotational motion"
- 1986 Roy Lubove, "The Struggle for Social Security, 1900-1935"
- 2004 Lloyd Manning Wells, "From Anzio to the Alps: an American soldier's story"