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" To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter."
Tom Hodgkinson

Meaning of "unsmiling" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF UNSMILING

ʌnˈsmaɪlɪŋ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNSMILING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unsmiling is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNSMILING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Serious

Serious may refer to: ▪ Seriousness ▪ Serious, 1994 ▪ Serious, 1987 ▪ "Serious" a song by Alice Cooper from their From the Inside album ▪ "Serious" a single by Donna Allen ▪ "Serious", a 1990 single from the album Liberty ▪ "Serious", the fourth single off her debut album ▪ "Serious", a song from E-40's album Revenue Retrievin': Graveyard Shift ▪ "Serious", a song from Gwen Stefani's album Love. Angel. Music. Baby.Serious, a BBC children's television show ▪ "Serious", a song by Scars on Broadway from the album Scars on Broadway ▪ "Serious", a song by Jasmine V...

Definition of unsmiling in the English dictionary

The definition of unsmiling in the dictionary is not wearing or assuming a smile; serious.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNSMILING

beguiling · billing · drilling · failing · filing · filling · freestyling · hypermiling · killing · mailing · microfiling · paling · piling · profiling · sailing · smiling · stockpiling · styling · tiling · willing

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNSMILING

unsleeping · unsliced · unslick · unsling · unslipping · unsluice · unslumbering · unslumbrous · unslung · unsmart · unsmilingly · unsmirched · unsmitten · unsmokable · unsmoked · unsmooth · unsmotherable · unsnag · unsnagging · unsnap

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNSMILING

ailing · broiling · calling · ceiling · countervailing · Darjiling · glass ceiling · mass mailing · parasailing · plain sailing · prevailing · racial profiling · railing · retailing · roiling · tailing · trailing · unfailing · unveiling · veiling · wailing

Synonyms and antonyms of unsmiling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unsmiling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNSMILING

Find out the translation of unsmiling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of unsmiling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unsmiling» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

不苟言笑
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

sin sonreír
570 millions of speakers
en

English

unsmiling
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

unsmiling
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حكيمة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

без улыбки
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

sisudo
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

গম্ভীর
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

unsmiling
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Tidak menoleh
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

ernst
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

ニコリともしない
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

웃지
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Unsmiling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

unsmiling
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

unsmiling
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Unsmiling
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

gülmeyen
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

senza sorridere
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

bez uśmiechu
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

без посмішки
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

unsmiling
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγέλαστη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

unsmiling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

unsmiling
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unsmiling
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unsmiling

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QUOTES WITH «UNSMILING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unsmiling.
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Tom Hodgkinson
To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNSMILING»

Discover the use of unsmiling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unsmiling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Unsmiling Faces: How Preschools Can Heal
The first edition of this indispensable book set the standard for high-quality intervention and prevention programs in early childhood practice.
Lesley Koplow, 2007
2
Eden's Apple
The unsmiling man asked. "Foam." Barkeep poured a pitcher of foam in the sink. The beer bubbles clung to the dirty glasses like moss on a tombstone. "Then gimme a shot of Wild Turkey." "Chaser?" The unsmiling man shook his head.
Patri Collins, 1995
3
The Christian World of C. S. Lewis
"It is Faust, not he, who really exhibits the ruthless, sleepless, unsmiling concentration upon self which is the mark of Hell. The humorous, civilised, sensible, adaptable Mephistopheles has helped to strengthen the illusion that evil is liberating.
Clyde S. Kilby, 1964
4
Vandalism Of Words:
The outwardly unsmiling face of the inwardly unhappy person who would normally have waved me forward after waiting patiently in line and proceeded to look at my face and passport with great suspicion. This would have been sometimes ...
Derek Haines, 2010
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LIFE
Unsmiling. faces. of. mutual. wanness. After a year of Vietcong occupation, even the least likely civilians in Rach Kien— an old man perched on his front stoop, a mother nursing her infant child —are suspect. The townspeople and the newly ...
6
The Also People (The New Doctor Who Adventures):
Unsmiling. in. the. Darkness. We all make our choices on life's highway My mama , she always told me that But I'd sure feel much better doing it my way If someone would just let me see the map. 'What My Mama Told Me' by Jesse Palmer From ...
Ben Aaronvitch, 1995
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Milosevic: The People's Tyrant
Chapter. 3. The. Unsmiling. Politician. The uneasy silence that followed Tito's death was finally broken by the muffled voice of revolt. Inevitably, nationalism was at the root of it. One year into this period of post-Tito uncertainty, student-led  ...
Vidosav Stevanovic, Trude Johansson, 2004
8
Bob Plager's Tales from the Blues Bench: A Collection of the ...
Irish. Eyes. Unsmiling. O. ur players were nothing compared to Dan Kelly, our broadcaster. He feared flying. He hated flying. He covered hockey for the Blues and Canadian networks, and then he'd go cover baseball and football and other  ...
Bob Plager, 2012
9
Journeying The Tightrope
Unsmiling. Miss. Teen. I am the stranger she was taught to fear – Could be the sweet lure from life she suspiciously declined when she was five. How can she be expected to smile now she is Miss Teen? November 1987 ...
Edna Maher
10
Mexico City Noir
THE. UNSMILING. COMEDIAN. by F.G. Haghenbeck Condesa ... was great. It looked like a giant concrete sandwich with huge windows and austere furniture. The view was glorious; F G HAGHENBECK Condesa The Unsmiling Comedian.
Paco Ignacio Taibo (II), 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNSMILING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unsmiling is used in the context of the following news items.
1
A language of laughter
The "unsmiling Indian" was nowhere to be seen at the fourth Kaise Baat held at the University of the South Pacific last week. Nor, for that matter, were petulant ... «Fiji Times, Jul 15»
2
Photos of unsmiling Roof on manifesto website show symbols, gun
(CNN) A website featuring a racist manifesto and 60 photos has become part of the investigation into Dylann Roof, who has been charged in the slaying of nine ... «CNN, Jun 15»
3
Park In-bee: South Korea's unsmiling, silent assassin
SEOUL (Reuters) - Few golfers would describe Park In-bee's languid, truncated swing as "textbook", but after winning her sixth career major at the Women's PGA ... «Yahoo! Maktoob News, Jun 15»
4
Smile, Or Else! Oxford to Fine Unsmiling Buskers
It's said when you smile, the whole world smiles with you. Lovely, true — but what if you're actually ordered to smile? This is the kind of situation the buskers of ... «Social News Daily, May 15»
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Irish Eyes, Unsmiling: Everett Golson's Roller-Coaster Notre Dame …
When news broke on Thursday that quarterback Everett Golson plans to transfer from Notre Dame to spend his final season of college eligibility elsewhere, the ... «Grantland, May 15»
6
Good job, Conservatives. Now let's ditch that slippery Nick Clegg …
Why, given how he behaved over boundary reform, should anyone trust him? Give me a flinty, unsmiling Ulsterman any day. DUP leader Peter Robinson, right, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
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Williamson stakes claim as unsmiling assassin
Black Caps batting hero Kane Williamson stakes claim as unsmiling assassin. MARK GEENTY. Last updated 07:30, March 2 2015. HERO: Australia applaud ... «Taranaki Daily News, Mar 15»
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'Secrets and Lies' Star Juliette Lewis on Playing an Unsmiling Cop …
A lot changes in 15 years. The last time Juliette Lewis and Ryan Phillippe crossed career paths, on a bloody kidnapping caper called The Way of the Gun, she ... «Yahoo TV, Feb 15»
9
Obama shocked, 'slightly irritated' by Mitt Romney's 2012 …
Obama was "unsmiling during the call, and slightly irritated when it was over," Axelrod writes. The president hung up and said Romney admitted he was ... «New York Daily News, Feb 15»
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Victorians Loved Photobooth Sessions Before They Were Cool
As exposure time and cost went down, so did people's guards, but slowly. The vast majority of photographs of Victorians show stiff and unsmiling people. But it's ... «Mashable, Oct 14»
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