smile

1. 1.

   a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement

   Synonymssmilinggringrinning

   Broaderfacial expression

   Narrowersimpersmirk

Other forms of smile

plural

smiles·

past tense

smiled·

present participle

smiling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about smile

What does smile mean?

smile means "change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in smile?

smile has 1 syllable: smile. In IPA it is /ˈsmaɪl/.

What is another word for smile?

Close synonyms include smiling, grin, grinning. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is smile a common word?

smile is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.