smiling

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

   • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:

     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.

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 of smile

   They were smiling at the children.

Anagrams

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