mollifying

ADJECTIVE

bland

Synonyms

STRONGEST

soft

WEAK

balmy calm calmative clear lenient nonirritant nonirritating smooth soothing

Antonyms

WEAK

bitter caustic severe sharp tasty

ADJECTIVE

conciliatory

Synonyms

WEAK

appeasing assuaging calm civil disarming irenic pacific peaceable placating placatory propitiative quiet willing

Antonyms

WEAK

antagonistic fighting refusing stubborn

ADJECTIVE

mild

Synonyms

STRONGEST

balmy benign bland breezy calm cool delicate mellow moderate peaceful smooth soft sunny tepid warm weak

WEAK

benignant blah choice clear clement dainty demulcent easy emollient exquisite faint fine flat genial ho-hum lenient lenitive light lukewarm medium nothing nothing much pabulum pacific placid soothing tempered untroubled vanilla wimpy

Antonyms

STRONGEST

agitated coarse cold excited firm hard harsh healthy hot loud noisy rough severe stormy strong turbulent uncool unfriendly unkind upset violent wild

WEAK

fierce flappable nervous

ADJECTIVE

softening

Synonyms

STRONG

demulcent emollient lenitive pianissimo

WEAK

assuasive crumbly ductile emulsive flaccid friable lenient malleable mitigatory mollescent mollient pliable

ADJECTIVE

soothing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

calming reassuring

STRONG

alleviating consoling easing pacifying relaxing relieving remedying softening tranquilizing warming

WEAK

consolatory palliative

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To disguise my sex and identity—for it was a priori almost impossible that the inhabitants of Wenus had never heard of Pozzuoli—would guard me from the jellifying Mash-Glance of the Wenuses.

From The War of the Wenuses by Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)

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