smiling

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmaɪlɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ

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 639762314, page 0045:

     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.

• unsmiling

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 […]

smiling

1. present participle of smile

   They were smiling at the children.

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