Word Meanings - SOFTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make soft or more soft. Specifically: -- To render less hard; -- said of matter. Their arrow's point they soften in the flame. Gay. To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable. Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe. Rambler.

Additional info about word: SOFTEN

To make soft or more soft. Specifically: -- To render less hard; -- said of matter. Their arrow's point they soften in the flame. Gay. To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable. Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe. Rambler. To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault. To compose; to mitigate; to assuage. Music can soften pain to ease. Pope. To make calm and placid. All that cheers or softens life. Pope. To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality. He bore his great commision in his look, But tempered awe, and softened all he spoke. Dryden. To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture. To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury. To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOFTEN)

• Allay
• soothe
• alleviate
• repress
• mitigate
• quiet
• moderate
• appease
• compose
• soften
• pacify
• mollify
• assuage
• tranquilize
• palliate
• culm
• Moderate
• Control
• allay
• regulate
• govern
• temper
• Palliate
• Cloak
• cover
• conceal
• extenuate
• gloze
• Relent
• Yield
• relax
• Soothe
• Soften
• tranquillize
• lull
• flatter
• relieve

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SOFTEN)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Expose
• reveal
• betray
• exhibit
• produce
• mis-suffice
• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad

Related words: (words related to SOFTEN)

• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• RELENT
  1. To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day,
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.