smiling

About 12.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective That smiles or has a smile.

   smiling children

2. noun The action of the verb to smile.

   Smiling takes fewer muscles than frowning.

3. verb present participle and gerund of smile

   They were smiling at the children.

Similar words

grinning grin beamish cheerful twinkly riant laughingly laugh laughter laughing

Often followed by

at and face as in to with faces a