英和和英

形容詞

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:

     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.

反意語

• unsmiling

派生語

名詞

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 […]

動詞

smiling

1. present participle and gerund of smile

   They were smiling at the children.

アナグラム

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