Thesaurus:to smile
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
(intransitive)
Sense: to express happiness on one's face by flexing the muscles of the mouth[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- crack a smile (idiomatic)
- smile [⇒ thesaurus]
Hyponyms[edit]
- beam (figuratively)
- cheese [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
- fleer (archaic)
- fligger (obsolete)
- grin
- grin like a Cheshire cat (idiomatic)
- simper
- smile-smirk
- smirk
Antonyms[edit]
Hypernyms[edit]
Various[edit]
See also[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “840. amusement” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “838. rejoicing” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “smile” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.