mollifying
101disarming — adjective a disarming smile Syn: winning, charming, irresistible, persuasive, beguiling; conciliatory, mollifying …
102mollify — verb 1) they tried to mollify the protesters Syn: appease, placate, pacify, conciliate, soothe, calm (down) See note at pacify Ant: enrage 2) mollifying the fears of the public …
103pacific — adjective 1) a pacific community Syn: peace loving, peaceable, pacifist, nonviolent, nonaggressive, nonbelligerent, unwarlike Ant: aggressive, belligerent 2) their pacific intentions Syn …
104caviling — adj captious, faultfinding, censorious, carping, *critical, hypercritical Analogous words: exacting, demanding (see DEMAND): *contrary, perverse: objecting, protesting, expostulating, kicking (see OBJECT) Contrasted words: accommodating, obliging …
105yield — vb 1 produce, turn out, *bear Analogous words: *generate, engender, breed, propagate: create, *invent: form, shape, *make, fabricate, fashion 2 *relinqui …
106demulcent — adj soothing, mollifying, appeasing, pacifying, calming, sedative, comforting; emollient, softening, relaxing, easing; relieving, alleviative, alleviatory, assuasive, mitigative, mitigatory, lenitive; mild, gentle, soft …
107irenic — adj peaceful, peaceable, peaceloving, dovish, mild, gentle; pacific, pacificatory, peacemaking, diplomatic; conciliatory, propitiatory, appeasing, mollifying, placating …
108lenitive — adj 1. palliative, mitigative, mitigating, alleviative, alleviating, relieving, easing; soothing, softening, assuasive, assuaging, mollifying, demulcent, emollient, balmy, balsamic, A rchaic. lenient; calmative, sedative, relaxing; lubricative,… …
109mild — adj 1. tender, gentle, soft, soft hearted, tender hearted, sensitive, sympathetic, empathetic, compassionate, humane, forbearing, gracious, considerate, tactful, kind, civil; conciliatory, nonviolent, mollifying, pacific, peaceable, peaceful,… …
110pacific — adj 1. conciliatory, propitiatory, propi tiative, appeasing, mollifying, placating; pacificatory, peacemaking, accommodative, mediatory, diplomatic; soothing, calming. 2. peaceable, peace loving, irenic, dovish; pacifistic, nonviolent, unwarlike …
