Synonyms of unsmiling

unsmiling

adjective

ˌən-ˈsmī-liŋ 

as in solemn

not joking or playful in mood or manner

delivered the reprimand with a harsh and unsmiling face

Synonyms & Similar Words

• solemn
• stern
• serious
• humorless
• earnest
• professional
• sedate
• staid
• po-faced
• sober
• harsh
• severe
• distinguished
• no-nonsense
• grave
• strict
• uncomic
• weighty
• businesslike
• sobersided
• grim
• dignified
• gloomy
• serious-minded
• elevated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• humorous
• playful
• flippant
• jocular
• joking
• facetious
• kittenish
• funny
• flip
• comical
• light
• droll
• comic
• ridiculous
• hysterical
• ludic
• hilarious
• hysteric
• riotous
• antic
• ludicrous
• farcical
• laughable
• uproarious
• risible
• goofy
• jesting
• screaming
• frivolous
• lighthearted
• puerile
• scatterbrained
• flighty
• foolish
• silly
• absurd
• mad
• cockeyed
• insane
• harebrained
• daffy
• fatuous
• zany
• witless
• unwise
• lunatic
• nutty
• crazy
• preposterous
• sidesplitting
• kooky
• jerky
• light-headed
• wacky
• nonsensical
• whacky
• balmy
• loony
• brainless
• sappy
• senseless
• daft
• asinine
• cuckoo
• featherbrained
• dotty
• weak-minded
• half-witted
• kookie
• screwball
• looney

Examples of unsmiling in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But courage has many faces, and a revolution takes all sorts — and one made up only of unsmiling soldiers is likely to lead only to war. —Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 June 2024

She’s clipped, judgmental and unsmiling—there hasn’t been a figure of such puritanical disapproval since Amy Adams in The Master. —Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024

Belichick, known for his rumpled appearance, unsmiling countenance and monotone voice, was celebrated as savant, savior and sage. —Bill Pennington, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024

Other people worry that political tensions and anxiety over such things as the death of democracy and the climate crisis have left us collectively unsmiling—that now the only thing people are likely to talk about at a water cooler is cooler water. —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023