Definitions for smiling
smil·ing

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. smile, smiling, grin, grinning(adj)

   a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement

2. beamish, smiling(a), twinkly(adj)

   smiling with happiness or optimism

   "Come to my arms, my beamish boy!"- Lewis Carroll; "a room of smiling faces"; "a round red twinkly Santa Claus"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. smiling(Noun)

   The action of the verb to smile.

   Smiling takes fewer muscles than frowning.

2. smiling(Adjective)

   That which smiles or has a smile.

   smiling children

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Smiling

   of Smile

U.S. National Library of Medicine(1.50 / 6 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Smiling

   A facial expression which may denote feelings of pleasure, affection, amusement, etc.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'smiling' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4050

Anagrams for smiling »

1. sliming

How to pronounce smiling?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say smiling in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of smiling in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of smiling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of smiling in a Sentence

1. Kevin Portillo:

   I've been getting better on how I react. I do it automatically, sometimes when somebody says a joke, it actually feels great now. Before it felt weird to not smile. Smiling with both sides of my mouth at same time, I feel I'm one of the other people who smiles right.

2. Madeline Kahn:

   I hope Madeline Kahn is looking down and is smiling.

3. Jonas Van Doorsselaere:

   Every flight is different, every day we meet new people from all over the world with interesting stories. For most people it's their first balloon experience. It gives me a great feeling to see them smiling and enjoying their experience like I did with my first ride.

4. Anuj Somany:

   Many guests have the misconception that the bride & groom's relatives who stand with folded hands & smiling face at the main gate of the reception ceremony are for welcoming them, but the fact is they guard to avoid the entry of gatecrashers looking for free,sumptuous meal.

5. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   1. You take off the mask of hypocrisy, and there are hundreds of billions of laughing monsters of monsters. They laugh in a smile of hatred; an ordinary person simply cannot stand so much awareness. 2. The idea appeared in the mirror maze and it is reflected in all the mirrors, that is, the opinion that the source cannot be found because it is hidden from your eyes. You see that opinion is a sect. 3. Death from the dust of all the dead and dust of memories. Fear is all out of the darkness of the subconscious of billions of threads of manipulation. 4. The face tears up from laughter, and there is not flesh and soul, but a continuous smile of awareness. 5. A ghost is a hologram record of the projection of the universe, once generated by an accident of chaos, living in reality. This spirit is like the same memoirs and nostalgia of the past. This is a retro record of bygone times, traveling in empty eternity and nonsense, feeling only insensibility. A time-space film of time and space existing in time, in the depressing eternity of reality, in the void of consciousness of loneliness. A ghost who sees is not evolutionary progress, but the life cycle of a temporary transformation, rotting from the depravity of people. 6. Modern thinking is a mysterious essence, it is all in blood and is two meters tall, its smile opens to your soul and its smile descends to the earth and opens a portal to the dimension of eternal laughter, to a world without values. 7. Wandering in the midst of twilight darkness, the creative person revealed to the world what was hidden in the egg that lay in this fog, entities and monsters of the subconscious crawled out of it through the force field of imagination and depravity, through the force field they arise in the mind. Some in the imagination become prettier, while others are uglier. Then exhibited in a toy marketing store. 8. Under the ordinary eye, the eye of anger. Under the eye of anger, the eye of despondency. Under the eye of despondency, the eye of insight of enlightenment of good and light, selfless nobleness. 9. Reality is a terrible dystopia of smiling optimism, with wired senses, with laughing monsters in your head, that is, your vices.

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