smile

smile is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently.
2. intransitive verb. To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer.
3. intransitive verb. To look gay and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy; as, smiling spring; smiling plenty.
4. intransitive verb. To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; -- often with on; as, to smile on one's labors.
5. transitive verb. To express by a smile; as, to smile consent; to smile a welcome to visitors.
6. transitive verb. To affect in a certain way with a smile.
7. intransitive verb. The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; -- opposed to frown.
8. intransitive verb. A somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc; as, a scornful smile.
9. intransitive verb. Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as, the smiles of Providence.
10. intransitive verb. Gay or joyous appearance; as, the smiles of spring.
11. noun. a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement

    Synonyms: grin, grinning, smiling

12. verb. change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
13. verb. express with a smile

    "She smiled her thanks"

Synonyms

grin, grinning, smiling

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in smile:

limes, melis, miles, slime

Common word forms

smiled, smiler, smiles, smiling, smileful, smileable, smileless

Words from these letters

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