English

Adjective

smiling ‎(comparative more smiling, superlative most smiling)

1. That which 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.

Antonyms

• unsmiling

Translations

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

• sliming