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smileless, a.|ˈsmaɪllɪs|
[f. smile n.]
1. Of persons, the features, expression, etc.: Exhibiting no smile; never smiling; grave, severe.
1719Lady Wardlaw Hardyknute xxxiv, With smyless luke, and visage wan, The wounded Knight replied. 1837Wordsw. Night thought 11 Ingrates who wear a smileless face The whole year through. 1838Lytton Alice xi. i, Pale, wan,..smileless, she was the ghost of her former self. 1882C. D. Warner W. Irving x. 295 The smileless prig has begun to weary even the popular fancy. 1892G. Hake Mem. xxxv. 115 That free, smileless expression.
b. Of words, etc.: Uttered without a smile.
1810S. Green Reformist I. 208 She either replied not at all, or only answered her by a smileless monosyllable. 1877Daily News 30 Nov., It is a fearfully impressive thing to listen to his smileless, unaltering harangues.
2. Devoid of brightness or cheerfulness; dark, dull, cheerless.
1858Lytton What will he do? vi. ix, And so the old man, whose life had been so smileless, died smiling. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakfast-t. iv, That smileless eternity to which they look forward. a1873Lytton Pausanias 60 The very moonlight upon these waters, cold and smileless.
Hence ˈsmilelessly adv.; ˈsmilelessness.
1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. xxvi, Not only smileless herself, but the cause of smilelessness in others. 1869Aldrich Story Bad Boy 68 At seven o'clock my grandfather comes smilelessly down stairs. |
