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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soothing |
| Synonyms: | balsamic, demulcent, healing, lenitive, palliative, relieving, remedial, softening |
| Main Entry: | balm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | oily substance |
| Synonyms: | analgesic, application, balsam, cerate, compound, cream, demulcent, dressing, embrocation, emollient, formula, lotion, medicine, ointment, potion, poultice, preparation, prescription, salve, soother, soothing agent, unction, unguent |
| Main Entry: | lenient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | permissive |
| Synonyms: | allowing, amiable, assuaging, assuasive, being big, benign, benignant, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, condoning, easy, easygoing, emollient, excusing, favoring, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, going easy on, good-natured, humoring, indulgent, kind, kindly, letting, live with, loving, merciful, mild, mollycoddling, obliging, pampering, pardoning, permitting, soft, soft-shell, softhearted, sparing, spoiling, sympathetic, tender, tolerant, yielding |
| Antonyms: | hard, intolerant, limiting, restrictive, rigorous, severe |
| Main Entry: | liniment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ointment |
| Synonyms: | balm, cream, dressing, embrocation, emollient, lenitive, lotion, medicine, salve, unguent |
| Main Entry: | mild |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gentle, temperate, nonirritating |
| Synonyms: | balmy, benign, benignant, blah*, bland, breezy, calm, choice, clear, clement, cool, dainty, delicate, demulcent, easy, emollient, exquisite, faint, fine, flat, genial, ho-hum, lenient, lenitive, light, lukewarm, medium, mellow, moderate, mollifying, nothing, nothing much, pabulum, pacific, peaceful, placid, smooth, soft, soothing, sunny, tempered, tepid, untroubled, vanilla, warm, weak, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | fierce, harsh, rough, violent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | moisturizer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lotion |
| Synonyms: | balm, cream, demulcent, emollient, liniment, oil, ointment, salve, unction, unguent |
| Main Entry: | ointment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cream for treatment |
| Synonyms: | balm, cerate, demulcent, dressing, embrocation, emollient, lenitive, liniment, lotion, medicine, salve, unguent |
| Main Entry: | softening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | relaxing |
| Synonyms: | assuasive, crumbly, demulcent, ductile, emollient, emulsive, flaccid, friable, lenient, lenitive, malleable, mitigatory, mollescent, mollient, mollifying, pianissimo, pliable |
| Main Entry: | unguent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | salve |
| Synonyms: | balm, cerate, cream, emollient, lotion, lubricant, ointment |
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