I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ big , bright , broad , huge , wide
▪
She had a big ~ on her face.
▪ faint , slight , thin , wan , weak
▪ beaming , beatific , cheerful , dazzling , happy , radiant , sunny , warm
▪
the warm ~ in his eyes
▪ beautiful , charming , cute ( esp. AmE ), engaging , friendly , gentle , sweet , winning
▪
She has a beautiful ~.
▪ infectious
▪
He had an infectious ~ that touched the lives of many people.
▪ disarming , enigmatic , mischievous , mocking , rueful , sardonic , sly , wry
▪
She gave a wry ~.
▪ sad
▪ shy
▪ apologetic , sheepish
▪ encouraging , indulgent , reassuring
▪ polite
▪ beguiling
▪ easy , ready
▪
She had a keen wit and a ready ~.
▪ fake , fixed , forced
▪ conspiratorial , knowing
▪ grim
▪
a grim ~ of satisfaction
▪ humourless/humorless , mirthless
▪
She suppressed a mirthless ~.
▪ goofy ( informal , esp. AmE )
▪
He had a goofy ~ plastered across his face.
▪ crooked , lopsided
▪ toothy
▪ toothless
… OF A SMILE
▪ glimmer , hint , trace
▪
A trace of a ~ played across her lips.
VERB + SMILE
▪ have , wear
▪
She had a happy ~ on her face.
▪ crack , flash (sb) , give sb , smile
▪
I don't think he ever cracked a ~.
▪
He flashed her a disarming ~.
▪
She smiled a ~ of dry amusement.
▪ manage
▪
She managed a weak ~.
▪ return
▪
She returned his ~.
▪ hide , suppress
▪
They had to hide their ~s.
▪ force
▪
Her father forced a ~.
▪ raise ( esp. BrE )
▪
Mention of this subject is guaranteed to raise a ~.
SMILE + VERB
▪ fade , freeze , vanish
▪
Her sunny ~ vanished as she read the letter.
▪ falter
▪
His ~ faltered slightly.
▪ come across sth , come over sth , come to sth
▪
A ~ came to her lips.
▪ creep across sth , creep onto sth , creep over sth
▪
A wry ~ crept over his face.
▪ cross sth
▪ flicker across sth , flicker on sth , flicker over sth
▪
A faint ~ flickered across her face.
▪ light sth up
▪
She got up immediately, a ~ lighting up her face.
▪ play about sth ( esp. BrE ), play across sth , play on sth
▪
A small ~ played on his lips.
▪ form
▪ grow , spread , spread across sth , spread over sth , widen
▪
Her ~ grew radiant.
▪
A gentle ~ spread over her face.
PREPOSITION
▪ with a ~
▪
‘Oh, hello!’ he said, with a ~.
▪ ~ of
▪
a ~ of approval
PHRASES
▪ have a ~ on your face
▪
She always has a ~ on her face.
▪ bring a ~ to sb's face , put a ~ on sb's face
▪
It is a beautiful song that puts a ~ on your face.
▪ keep the ~ off your face
▪
He could hardly keep the ~ off his face.
▪ wipe the ~ off sb's face
▪
I'm going to wipe that ~ off your face (= make you stop thinking this is funny) .
▪ be all ~s
▪
Twelve hours later she was all ~s again.
▪ be wreathed in ~s
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His face was wreathed in ~s.
▪ (have) a ~ plastered across/on your face
▪
The little boy had a ~ plastered across his face.
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ broadly , widely
▪
She put down her tools and ~d broadly.
▪ faintly , slightly , thinly , wanly , weakly
▪
He looked at the mess and ~d weakly.
▪ brightly , dazzlingly , happily , radiantly , warmly
▪
Lawrence nodded, smiling happily.
▪ charmingly , gently , softly , sweetly , winningly
▪ innocently
▪ benignly , kindly , politely
▪ merely , simply
▪
I simply ~d at him and said ‘hi!’
▪ shyly
▪ encouragingly , indulgently , reassuringly
▪
The doctor ~d reassuringly.
▪ apologetically , sheepishly
▪ ruefully , wryly
▪
Molly ~d rather wryly and said nothing.
▪ archly , enigmatically
▪ conspiratorially
▪ mischievously , slyly
▪ sadly
▪ grimly
▪ humourlessly/humorlessly , mirthlessly
▪ smugly , triumphantly
▪ crookedly , lopsidedly
▪ back
▪
He winked at her, and she ~d back.
▪ always
▪
Gary is always smiling—he's so positive.
VERB + SMILE
▪ try to
▪ manage to
▪ make sb
▪
The memory still made her ~.
PREPOSITION
▪ at
▪
He turned and ~d at me.
▪ with
▪
She ~d with pleasure.
PHRASES
▪ ~ down at sb , ~ up at sb
▪
She ~d up at him.
▪ ~ from ear to ear
▪ ~ to yourself
▪
She ~d to herself, picturing how surprised her mother would be to see her.
Smile is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ eye , ↑ face
Smile is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ greeting , ↑ grin , ↑ smile , ↑ thanks