beaming

Glowing with joy

Beaming describes radiating light or joy.

A beaming smile is broad and bright, suggesting happiness that can't be contained: She was beaming with pride at her daughter's graduation.

The sun beams through clouds.

A beaming face glows with pleasure.

The word connects to beam—a ray of light, or the verb meaning to emit rays or transmit signals.

smiling

grinning

Showing a broad smile

ear-to-ear · wide · bright · warm · genuine · infectious · dazzling · megawatt · gleaming · glowing

radiant

glowing

Giving off steady light

bright · resplendent · effulgent · gleaming · incandescent · lustrous · lambent · lucent · aglow · blazing

joyful

elated

Intensely, buoyantly pleased

jubilant · exhilarated · blissful · euphoric · delighted · radiant · glowing · sunny · buoyant · cheerful

proud

triumphant

Joyfully victorious

exultant · glowing · dignified · honorable · self-satisfied · gratified · fulfilled · boastful · smug · pleased

broadcasting

transmitting

Sending out signals

wireless · radio · microwave · laser · projecting · emitting · streaming · sending · relay · broadcast

Categories
Opposites
facial expression/emotional display

beamingfrowning

Facial expression of displeasure

scowling · miserable · glowering · sullen · glum

light emission/radiance

beamingdark

Absence of light

dim · dull · lightless · unlit · gloomy

facial expression

beamingfrowning

Facial expression of displeasure

scowling · glowering · grimacing · glaring · sneering

Phrases
Family

beam, beams, beamed, sunbeam, I-beam, moonbeam, crossbeam, high-beam, low-beam

Familiarity
Top 10,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G