smiling

ADJECTIVE

beaming

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cheerful genial radiant shining

STRONG

animated grinning sparkling

WEAK

joyful sunny

Antonyms

STRONGEST

dark gloomy sad unhappy

WEAK

frowning sullen ugly

ADJECTIVE

benign

Synonyms

STRONGEST

benevolent encouraging favorable

WEAK

auspicious beneficent bright charitable dexter fortunate good lucky merciful propitious salutary

Antonyms

WEAK

bad cancerous disadvantageous harmful hateful hostile hurtful injurious malignant severe unkind

ADJECTIVE

fair

Synonyms

STRONGEST

calm clear favorable

STRONG

clarion dry fine

WEAK

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

Antonyms

WEAK

cloudy dark inclement rainy stormy

ADJECTIVE

good-humored

Synonyms

STRONGEST

affable amiable cheerful genial good-natured merry

WEAK

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

Antonyms

STRONGEST

gloomy grave irritable mean sad serious surly unfriendly unhappy

WEAK

ill-humored morose unfunny

ADJECTIVE

sunny

Synonyms

STRONGEST

buoyant cheerful cheery genial lighthearted pleasant

WEAK

beaming blithe chirpy joyful lightsome optimistic sunbeamy

Antonyms

STRONGEST

depressed heavy-hearted

WEAK

cloudy gloomy rainy sullen upset

Example Sentences

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Smiling on the banks of a canal in the centre of Amsterdam, Prins is adamant smaller specialist tradespeople in Amsterdam will benefit from the new advertising ban.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

Smiling, Becker said he’d asked the pope, “How’s business?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

Smiling pairs danced the same steps simultaneously, exchanging partners every few beats.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Smiling broadly and clad in military fatigues, young Iraqi Mohammed Imad's last TikTok post was in a field carved up with heavy vehicle tracks in what appeared to be Ukraine.

From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025

Smiling nor blushing wasn’t nowhere in my mind.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

smiling

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