Thesaurus:to smile
English edit
Noun edit
(intransitive)
Sense: to express happiness on one's face by flexing the muscles of the mouth edit
Synonyms edit
- crack a smile (idiomatic)
- smile [⇒ thesaurus]
Hyponyms edit
- beam (figuratively)
- cheese [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
- fleer (archaic)
- fligger (obsolete)
- grin
- grin like a Cheshire cat (idiomatic)
- simper
- smile-smirk
- smirk
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Further reading edit
- “840. amusement” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “838. rejoicing” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “smile” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.