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look squint peek askance glint blink leer look-in gander ogle asquint skim squiz basilisk cast dekko overglance eye blush peep aspect sidelong glimpse glancing eyeshot aper�u [or] apercu cockatrice thumb at first blush eyewink stricture glim blench oeillade waff scan glad eye browse gloat gley side-glance downcast passing glime fisheye carom slant underlook look-see twire perstringe cursory once–over sideways glanced evil eye bird's-eye spy shufti soft coup d'oeil keek
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smickering eyeglance gleam subitize foreglance eyeful redruthite knowing side glance fleer waver arch eye trick rake skew gleek eyebeam chalcocite wary espy dart wither refer eyed flirtatious side-eye expressive strike mischievous side–glance eye–beam skelly admiring toot casting stibnite glide awry fall shoot transient side–look glisk landscape shy sklent looking pry throw sympathetic monitory loveless feeling distasteful withering pitying coup d'œil sheep's eye culmiferous fearful half an eye bird-eyed admonitory fervid amorous slent pagoscope stroll score tender at significant bend eyeball cock one's eye acknowledge sweeping eye-cast nickel anthracite leg glance askant alabandine add miscast meaningful tip gliff glanceable sheep's-eye eye-beam slight cannon glunch flying at a glance glent without (so much as) a backward glance conspiratorial fluster baleful bad eye bank searching stern paper tiger sidewise argentite intelligence glassy observation swift miscue tableau sweep furtive down dulcet coup copper invaluable splint behold backward solid reproachful sneak superciliously spontaneity expectant zaffer class disdainfully homograph flap advert

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Words For "glance"

As you've probably noticed, words for "glance" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "glance" are: look, squint, peek, askance, and glint. There are 193 other words that are related to or similar to glance listed above. Hopefully the generated list of words for "glance" above suit your needs. If not, you might want to check out Related Words - another project of mine which uses a different technique (not though that it works best with single words, not phrases).

About Reverse Dictionary

The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter.

I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).

In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, @HubSpot, WordNet, and @mongodb.

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