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111pacification — n 1. tranquilization, quieting, calming, lulling, soothing, comforting, consoling, solacing; assuagement, allaying, alleviation, palliation, relieving; mitigation, abatement, remission, relief; reduction, lessening, diminution, moderation,… …
112palliative — adj 1. alleviative, alleviatory, mitiga tive, mitigatory, lenitive, Med. abirritant; mollifying, soothing, calming, Med. calmative, assuasive, demulcent; relaxing, numbing, dulling, anesthetic; pain killing, anodyne, Med. analgesic, deadening. n… …
113peaceable — adj 1. pacific, pacifist, pacifistic, peace loving, dovish, irenic; nonargumentative, nonquarrel some, nonquarreling, uncontentious, unbelligerent, nonbelligerent, unpugnacious, nonviolent, noncom bative, unbellicose, unwarlike, nonwarring,… …
114remission — n 1. forwarding, transmission, transmittal, transmitting, sending, dispatch, dispatching, remitting; payment, paying, discharge, discharging; remunerating, reimbursement, reimbursing, compensation, settlement, settling, paying off or up,… …
115disarming — adjective Syn: winning, charming, irresistible, persuasive, soothing, conciliatory, mollifying Ant: infuriating …
116mollify — UK [ˈmɒlɪfaɪ] / US [ˈmɑləˌfaɪ] verb [transitive] Word forms mollify : present tense I/you/we/they mollify he/she/it mollifies present participle mollifying past tense mollified past participle mollified formal to make someone feel less angry or… …
117demulcent — de•mul•cent [[t]dɪˈmʌl sənt[/t]] adj. 1) pha soothing or mollifying, as a medicinal substance 2) pha a demulcent substance or agent, often mucilaginous • Etymology: 1725–35; < L dēmulcent , s. of dēmulcēns, prp. of dēmulcēre to stroke, soothe …
118demulcent — /dəˈmʌlsənt/ (say duh mulsuhnt) adjective 1. soothing or mollifying, as a medicinal substance. –noun 2. a demulcent (often mucilaginous) substance or agent, as for soothing or protecting an irritated mucous membrane. {Latin dēmulcens, present… …
119bland — [adj1] tasteless; undistinctive banal, blah*, boring, dull, dull as dishwater*, flat, flavorless, ho hum*, humdrum, insipid, milkand water*, monotonous, nerdy*, nothing, pabulum*, sapless*, tame, tedious, unexciting, uninspiring, uninteresting,… …
120conciliatory — [adj] placid, yielding appeasing, assuaging, calm, civil, disarming, irenic, mollifying, pacific, peaceable, placating, placatory, propitiative, quiet, willing; concept 401 Ant. antagonistic, fighting, refusing, stubborn …
