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present participle of smile.

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beaming adj.
benign adj.
fair adj.
good-humored adj.
sunny adj.

ADJECTIVE

beaming

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cheerful genial radiant shining

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animated grinning sparkling

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joyful sunny

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dark gloomy sad unhappy

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frowning sullen ugly

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benign

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benevolent encouraging favorable

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auspicious beneficent bright charitable dexter fortunate good lucky merciful propitious salutary

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bad cancerous disadvantageous harmful hateful hostile hurtful injurious malignant severe unkind

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fair

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calm clear favorable

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clarion dry fine

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balmy clement mild placid pleasant pretty rainless sunny sunshiny tranquil unclouded undarkened unthreatening

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cloudy dark inclement rainy stormy

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good-humored

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affable amiable cheerful genial good-natured merry

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buoyant cheery complaisant congenial easy good-tempered lenient mild obliging pleasant

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gloomy grave irritable mean sad serious surly unfriendly unhappy

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ill-humored morose unfunny

ADJECTIVE

sunny

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buoyant cheerful cheery genial lighthearted pleasant

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beaming blithe chirpy joyful lightsome optimistic sunbeamy

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depressed heavy-hearted

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cloudy gloomy rainy sullen upset

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smiling

“Still talking about the same things, right?” he asked, smiling.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

“Went and got the law involved,” Wilkins posted on Instagram, alongside a black-and-white photograph of the couple smiling and showing off Wilkins’ engagement ring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Jacob Tremblay embodies a young Kaczynski almost exactly as I have imagined him, minus the smiling and the forging of his mother’s signature.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Pictures of Gershkovich smiling at cameras during his court appearances in Moscow were broadcast around the world - and that was deliberate, he said - a way of showing that he was alright.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

You can tell if someone is smiling when they speak.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

smiling

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