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1. Emit a steady even light without flames
   "The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden"
    
2. Have a complexion with a strong bright colour, such as red or pink
   "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna";
   - beam, radiate, shine
    
3. Shine intensely, as if with heat
   "The coals were glowing in the dark";
   - burn
    
4. Be exuberant or high-spirited
   "Make the people's hearts glow"
    
5. Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
   "She was glowing with joy";
   - beam, radiate, shine

1. An alert and refreshed state
   - freshness
    
2. Light from nonthermal sources
   - luminescence
    
3. The phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
   - incandescence
    
4. A feeling of considerable warmth
   "the glow of new love"; "a glow of regret"
    
5. A steady even light without flames
    
6. The amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
   - radiance, glowing
    
7. An appearance of reflected light
   - gleam, gleaming, lambency

Derived forms: glowed, glows, glowing

Type of: appear, beam, brightness, brightness level, effulgence, experience, feel, feeling, good health, healthiness, light, look, luminance, luminosity, luminousness, radiance, radiancy, radiate, refulgence, refulgency, seem, shine, visible light, visible radiation

Encyclopedia: Glow