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grinning

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Main Entry: grin
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Definition: smile widely

Synonyms:

beam, crack, simper, smirk

Antonyms:

frown, growl
Main Entry: beam
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: smile broadly

Synonyms:

gleam, glow, grin, laugh, radiate, shine, smirk
Notes: ray is distinguished from beam in that it describes a smaller quantity of light (beam being a collection of parallel rays)

Antonyms:

frown, scowl
Main Entry: beaming
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very happy

Synonyms:

animated, cheerful, genial, grinning, joyful, radiant, shining, smiling, sparkling, sunny

Antonyms:

frowning, sad, sullen, unhappy
Main Entry: laugh
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: expressing amusement, happiness

Synonyms:

break up, burst*, cachinnate, chortle, chuckle, convulsed, crack up, crow, die laughing, fracture, giggle, grin, guffaw, howl, roar, roll in the aisles, scream, shriek, snicker, snort, split one's sides, titter, whoop, with sound be in stitches

Antonyms:

cry
Main Entry: smile
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put on a happy expression

Synonyms:

be gracious, beam, express friendliness, express tenderness, grin, laugh, look amused, look delighted, look happy, look pleased, simper, smirk

Antonyms:

frown, glower
Main Entry: sneer
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mock, condemn

Synonyms:

affront, belittle, burlesque, caricature, crack, curl one's lip at, decry, deride, detract, disdain, disparage, dump, fleer, flout, gibe, gird, give Bronx cheer, grin, hold in contempt, hold up to ridicule, insult, jeer, jest, lampoon, laugh at, leer, look down on, put down, quip at, rally, rank out, ridicule, satirize, scoff, scorn, slam, slight, smile, sneeze at, sniff at, snigger, swipe, taunt, travesty, turn up one's nose, twit, underrate

Antonyms:

compliment, praise
Main Entry: simper
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: smile coyly

Synonyms:

beam*, grin, leer, look smug, smirk, sneer
Main Entry: snigger
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: sneer

Synonyms:

affront, belittle, burlesque, caricature, crack*, curl one's lip, decry, deride, detract, disdain, disparage, dump, fleer, flout, gibe, gird, give Bronx cheer, grin, hold in contempt, hold up to ridicule, insult, jeer, jest, lampoon, laugh at, leer, look down on, put down*, quip at, rally, rank out, ridicule, satirize, scoff, scorn, slam*, slight, smile*, sneeze at, snicker, sniff at, swipe, taunt, travesty, turn up one's nose, twit, underrate
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