Smile

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  • noun. A facial expression characterized by an upward curving of the corners of the mouth and indicating pleasure, amusement, or derision.
  • intransitive verb. To have or form a smile.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To look with favor or approval.
  • intransitive verb. To express cheerful acceptance or equanimity.
  • intransitive verb. To express with a smile.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To show a change of the features such as characterizes the beginning of a laugh; give such an expression to the face: generally as indicative of pleasure or of slight amusement, but sometimes of depreciation, contempt, pity, or hypocritical complaisance.
  • To look gay or joyous, or have an appearance such as tends to excite joy; appear propitious or favorable: as, the smiling spring.
  • To drink in company.
  • To ferment, as beer, etc.
  • To express by a smile: as, to smile a welcome; to smile content.
  • To change or affect (in a specified way) by smiling: with a modifying word or clause added.
  • To smile at; receive with a smile.
  • noun. An expression of the face like that with which a laugh begins, indicating naturally pleasure, moderate joy, approbation, amusement, or kindliness, but also sometimes amused or supercilious contempt, pity, disdain, hypocritical complaisance, or the like. Compare smirk, simper, and grin.
  • noun. Gay or joyous appearance; an appearance that would naturally be productive of joy: as, the smiles of spring.
  • noun. Favor; countenance; propitiousness: as, the smiles of Providence.
  • noun. A drink, as of spirit, taken in company and when one person treats another; also, the giving of the treat: as, it is my smile.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To express by a smile
  • transitive verb. To affect in a certain way with a smile.
  • intransitive verb. To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently.
  • intransitive verb. To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer.
  • intransitive verb. To look gay and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy
  • intransitive verb. To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; -- often with on.
  • noun. The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; -- opposed to frown.
  • noun. A somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc.
  • noun. Favor; countenance; propitiousness.
  • noun. Gay or joyous appearance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth while showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety.
  • verb. or (intransitive) To have a smile on one's face
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
  • verb. express with a smile
  • noun. a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
  • Word Usage
    "Tomorrow imma smile and be happy Ü and imma talk to mary who will also be alone for Valentines Day Imma be on the phone wif her just talking so that we wont be alone * smile* I miss Mary although she seemed like a bad friend but I realize that she needed a friend too I miss her so much and I miss Sergio too. .aww I wanna go back ..."
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    evince  express  show  
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    smiled  smiles  smiling