smiling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmaɪlɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ

Adjective

smiling (comparative more smiling, superlative most smiling)

1. That smiles or has a smile.

   smiling children

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

Antonyms

• unsmiling

Derived terms

• smiling assassin
• smilingly

 

Translations

that smiles or has a smile

• Bulgarian: усмихнат (bg) (usmihnat)
• Catalan: somrient (ca)
• French: souriant (fr)
• Galician: risoño (gl), riseiro (gl), cacarelo (gl)
• German: lächelnd (de)
• Hungarian: mosolygó (hu)
• Latvian: smaidīgs, smaidošs
• Persian: خندان (fa) (xandân)
• Polish: uśmiechnięty (pl)
• Portuguese: sorridente (pt), risonho (pt)
• Spanish: sonriente (es)
• Telugu: హసితము (hasitamu)

Noun

smiling (countable and uncountable, plural smilings)

1. The action of the verb to smile.

   Smiling takes fewer muscles than frowning.

   • 1837, Harriet Catharine Grew, Memorials of a Young Christian:

     We […] shall ascend to our Father's home of holiness, to enjoy perpetually the smilings of his face […]

Verb

smiling

1. present participle and gerund of smile

   They were smiling at the children.

Anagrams

• Limings, Lingism, limings, milsing, misling, sliming