Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to smile
Participle: smiled
Gerund: smiling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | smile |
| you | smile |
| he;she;it | smiles |
| we | smile |
| you | smile |
| they | smile |
Perfect
| I | have smiled |
| you | have smiled |
| he;she;it | has smiled |
| we | have smiled |
| you | have smiled |
| they | have smiled |
Past
| I | smiled |
| you | smiled |
| he;she;it | smiled |
| we | smiled |
| you | smiled |
| they | smiled |
Pluperfect
| I | had smiled |
| you | had smiled |
| he;she;it | had smiled |
| we | had smiled |
| you | had smiled |
| they | had smiled |
Future
| I | will smile |
| you | will smile |
| he;she;it | will smile |
| we | will smile |
| you | will smile |
| they | will smile |
Future Perfect
| I | will have smiled |
| you | will have smiled |
| he;she;it | will have smiled |
| we | will have smiled |
| you | will have smiled |
| they | will have smiled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | smile |
| you | smile |
| he;she;it | smile |
| we | smile |
| you | smile |
| they | smile |
Perfect
| I | have smiled |
| you | have smiled |
| he;she;it | have smiled |
| we | have smiled |
| you | have smiled |
| they | have smiled |
Imperfect
| I | smiled |
| you | smiled |
| he;she;it | smiled |
| we | smiled |
| you | smiled |
| they | smiled |
Pluperfect
| I | had smiled |
| you | had smiled |
| he;she;it | had smiled |
| we | had smiled |
| you | had smiled |
| they | had smiled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would smile |
| you | would smile |
| he;she;it | would smile |
| we | would smile |
| you | would smile |
| they | would smile |
Perfect
| I | would have smiled |
| you | would have smiled |
| he;she;it | would have smiled |
| we | would have smiled |
| you | would have smiled |
| they | would have smiled |
Imperative
| you | smile |
| we | Let's smile |
| you | smile |
Verbs conjugated like 'smile'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'smile'
sile,
smilt,
smite,
smize,
spile,
stile,
amble,
avile,
besmile,
bile,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English smilen (“to smile”), from Middle Low German *smîlen (“to smile”), from Middle High German smielen, from Old High German smielēn, from Proto-West Germanic *smīlēn, from Proto-Germanic *smīlāną (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”).
2. Cognate with Danish smile, Swedish smila, Faroese smíla (“to smile”); also Saterland Frisian smielje (“to smile”), Low German smielen (“to smile”), Dutch smuilen (“to smile”), Middle High German smielen (“to smile”). Related also to Old High German smierōn (“to smile”), Old English smerian (“to laugh at”), Old English smercian, smearcian ("to smile"; > English smirk), Latin mīror (“to wonder at”). See: Middle High German '
smielen', Proto-Germanic '
*smilāną', Danish '
smile', Swedish '
smila', Faroese '
smíla', Frisian, Saterlandic 'smielje', Low Saxon 'smielen', Dutch '
smuilen', Middle High German '
smielen', Old English '
smerian', Old English '
smercian', English '
smirk', Latin '
mīror'.
Verbs referencing "smile"
Scots Gaelic
smèid, Sanskrit
स्मयते, Low Saxon smielen, Swedish
smila, Frisian, Saterlandic smielje, Proto-Slavic
smьjati, German, old spelling
schmollen, Cebuano esmayl.
Sample Sentences
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“ How glad I am ! — why don't you smile ? — and look at Harry—how he grows. ” The boy stood shyly regarding his father through his curls, holding close to the skirts of his mother's dress. “ Isn't he beautiful ? ” said Eliza, lifting his [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] the children, placed Oliver 's fingers in the positions to spell key, on which Laura went and brought the article: the little fellow seemed much amused by this, and looked very attentive and smiling. I then caused him to make the letters bread, and in an instant Laura went and brought him a piece: he smelled at it; put it to his lips; cocked up his head with a most knowing look; seemed [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] the greater became Mrs. Shelby's dread of his succeeding in recapturing Eliza and her child, and of course the greater her motive for detaining him by every female artifice. She therefore graciously smiled, assented, chatted familiarly, and did all she could to make time pass imperceptibly.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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And the senator smiled, as if he rather liked the idea of considering himself a sacrifice to his country.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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He smiled as I looked at these contrivances to while away the time; but when I looked from them to him, I saw that his lip trembled, and could have counted the beating of his heart. I forget how it came [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] an air of disturbed and uneasy curiosity. He seemed to himself to have met and been acquainted with him somewhere, but he could not recollect. Every few moments, when the man spoke, or moved, or smiled, he would start and fix his eyes on him, and then suddenly withdraw them, as the bright, dark eyes met his with such unconcerned coolness. At last, a sudden recollection seemed to flash upon him, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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George drew himself up, and smiled disdainfully. The old gentleman eyed him from head to foot, with a sort of innocent wonder.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The same decay and gloom that overhang the way by which it is approached, hover above the town of Richmond. There are pretty villas and cheerful houses in its streets, and Nature smiles upon the country round; but jostling its handsome residences, like slavery itself going hand in hand with many lofty virtues, are deplorable tenements, fences unrepaired, walls crumbling into [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ But what if they put thee in prison ? ” “ Couldn't thee and mother manage the farm ? ” said Simeon, smiling.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Simeon second blushed scarlet; but his mother only smiled, and said, “ Simeon is my good boy; he will grow older, by and by, and then he will be like his father. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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He went through hell but never stopped smiling. Uncle, thank you.
(Hoy Maharaja)
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Anna... Giulio. Have you noticed ? You 're smiling.
(My Hero Academia: You're Next)