Word Meanings - SOOTHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from Soothe, v.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOOTHING)

• Demulcent
• Soothing
• softening
• allaying
• lenitive
• Dulcet
• Sweet
• soothing
• melodious
• soft
• warbling
• euphonious
• Lenitive
• Palliative
• initiative
• Sedative
• Allaying
• tranquillizing
• composing
• demulcent
• palliative
• assuasive
• lenient
• anodyne
• hypnotic

Related words: (words related to SOOTHING)

• HYPNOTIC
  1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• DEMULCENT
  Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.
• PALLIATIVE
  Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
• LENIENTLY
  In a lenient manner.
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• SWEETEN
  Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
• SWEETNESS
  The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
• COMPOSITE
  Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
• SWEETWORT
  Any plant of a sweet taste.
• SOOTHNESS
  Truth; reality. Chaucer.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• AUTOHYPNOTIC
  Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing. -- n.