Definition of Smileless

1. a. Not having a smile.

Definition of Smileless

1. Adjective. Without a smile, unsmiling. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Smileless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smileless

smiercases
smift
smifts
smight
smighting
smights
smil'd
smilaceous
smilacin
smilagenin
smilax
smilaxes
smiled
smileful
smileless (current term)
smilelike
smiler
smilers
smiles
smilest
smilet
smileth
smilets
smiley
smiley face
smiley faces
smileys
smilie
smilier

Literary usage of Smileless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Combe, Dr. ¡Syntax, Tour II. cv smileless, without a smile. ... And so the old man, whose life had been so smileless, died smiling. ..."

2. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison (1908)
"The women fasted sitting on the ground, and hence arose the aetiological myth that Demeter herself, the desolate mother, fasted sitting on the 'smileless ..."

3. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1873)
"There are not a few who, even in this life, seem to be preparing themselves for that smileless eternity to which they look forward, by banishing all gaiety ..."

4. Wit and Humor of the Bible: A Literary Study by Marion Daniel Shutter (1892)
"There are not a few who, even in this life, seem to be preparing themselves for that smileless eternity by banishing all gayety from their hearts and all ..."

5. Wit and Humor of the Bible: A Literary Study by Marion Daniel Shutter (1892)
"There are not a few who, even in this life, seem to be preparing themselves for that smileless eternity by banishing all gayety from their hearts and all ..."

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