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unsmiling
adjective as in grave
adjective as in serious
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in severe
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- ascetic
- astringent
- austere
- biting
- caustic
- close
- cold
- cruel
- cutting
- despotic
- disapproving
- dour
- earnest
- firm
- flinty
- forbidding
- grave
- grim
- hard
- hard-nosed
- inconsiderate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron-handed
- obdurate
- oppressive
- peremptory
- pitiless
- resolute
- resolved
- rigid
- rigorous
- satirical
- scathing
- sober
- stern
- stiff
- strait-laced
- tight-lipped
- tyrannical
- unalterable
- unbending
- unchanging
- unfeeling
- unrelenting
- unsparing
adjective as in sobersided
Weak matches
- austere
- bound
- bound and determined
- businesslike
- cold sober
- contemplative
- deadpan
- deliberate
- determined
- downbeat
- earnest
- funereal
- genuine
- go for broke
- grave
- grim
- honest
- in earnest
- intent
- long-faced
- meditative
- no-nonsense
- pensive
- pokerfaced
- reflective
- resolute
- resolved
- sedate
- set
- severe
- sincere
- sober
- solemn
- staid
- steady
- stern
- thoughtful
- unhumorous
- weighty
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Example Sentences
I saw their pictures online… two good-looking, strong, unsmiling, young men in front of an American flag.
Boland is an immature kid with a lean, unsmiling face, ice-blue eyes, and wavy blond hair.
KIEV—They are burly, muscular men, reminiscent of the Soviet era with their strong Slavic features and unsmiling demeanor.
He was fidgety, furrow-faced, almost entirely unsmiling, and largely inarticulate.
Leon parked where he was directed, then he and Butch were thoroughly searched by a small battalion of unsmiling guards.
Consumers stood gray and inconspicuous behind the two rows of uniformed men, silent, unsmiling, like onlookers at an accident.
She saw only friendliness and some dark, unsmiling mood in his.
His unsmiling eyes are looking somberly, sternly, accusingly into hers.
“You might have shown him in some other way that you liked him,” she said with unsmiling sarcasm.
Sandoval and Makaraig congratulated one another, Isagani alone remaining cold and unsmiling.
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On this page you'll find 201 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unsmiling, such as: dignified, dull, earnest, heavy, muted, and quiet.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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