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View definitions for mollifying

mollifying

adjective as in bland

adjective as in conciliatory

adjective as in soothing

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Example Sentences

A certain mollifying dimness rests upon them now, and their superseded brilliancy gleams through it but faintly.

Experience was not greatly mollifying Sewall's opinion of the region in which his lot had been cast.

Only one religion—Islamism alone, I fear—will resist this mollifying process.

Time seemed to have no mollifying effect upon the animosity of the King.

One might have expected her childish comeliness to exercise something of a mollifying effect on his brutality.

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On this page you'll find 138 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mollifying, such as: soft, balmy, calm, calmative, clear, and lenient.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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