Smiling

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ

Full definition of smiling

Adjective

1. That which smiles or has a smile.
   smiling children
• 1910, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price Chapter 1, 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

Noun

1. The action of the verb to smile.Smiling takes fewer muscles than frowning.
• 1837, Harriet Catharine Grew, Memorials of a Young ChristianWe ... shall ascend to our Father's home of holiness, to enjoy perpetually the smilings of his face ...

Verb

1. Present participle of smileThey were smiling at the children.

Anagrams

• sliming