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pacifyingadjective tending to calm the emotions and relieve stressa pacifying treat of milk and cookies calming, comforting, dreamy, lulling, narcotic, quieting, relaxing, sedative, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) hypnotic, opiateanalgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, deadening, depressant, numbingantianxiety, antidepressant, antidepression, antistress painful, stressful, tiresome, troubling, trying, unsettling, worrisomeenergizing, invigorating, stimulant, stimulatingaggravating, annoying, bothersome, disturbing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, grating, harassing, irksome, irritating, maddening, nettlesome, troublesome, vexatious, vexing tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostilitythe referee adopted a pacifying tone to try to calm everyone down appeasing, conciliating, conciliatory, disarming, mollifying, pacific, peacemaking, placating, placatory, propitiatory endearing, ingratiating, winning, winsomepeaceable, peacefulnonbelligerent, unaggressive, unassertivecalming, comforting, lulling, quieting, relaxing, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)obliging, satisfyingaffable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, benevolent, genial, gentle, good-natured, good-tempered, kind, kindlypassive, submissive, surrendering, yielding antagonizing abrasive, aggravating, annoying, chafing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, inflammatory, irksome, irritating, maddening, nagging, nettlesome, nettling, offensive, provocative, provoking, rankling, riling, vexingengaging, incensing, infuriating, maddeningantagonistic, antipathetic, hostile, inhospitable, inimical, unfriendly, unsympatheticaggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assertive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, confrontational, contentious, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculentmartial, militant, militaristic, military, warlike to lessen the anger or agitation ofthe only thing that would pacify the child and end the tantrum was a new toy appeasing, assuaging, conciliating, disarming, gentling, mollifying, placating, propitiating calming, comforting, consoling, contenting, hushing, quieting, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)endearing (to), ingratiatingdelighting, gladdening, gratifying, pleasingadulating, blarneying, flattering, overpraising, soft-soapingquenching, satiating, sating, satisfyingcatering (to), humoring, indulgingblandishing, cajoling, coaxing, sweet-talking, wheedlingbabying, coddling, mollycoddling, pampering, spoilingdulcifying, sweetening angering, enraging, incensing, inflaming(also enflaming), infuriating, iring, maddening, outraging aggravating, annoying, antagonizing, bothering, bugging, burning (up), chafing, crossing, exasperating, galling, getting, grating, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, piquing, putting out, rankling, riling, roiling, ruffling, vexingprovoking, rousingharassing, harrying, persecuting, pesteringagitating, discomforting, distressing, disturbing, fretting, perturbing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, worryingaffronting, insulting, offending, slighting to bring under one's control by force of armsadditional ground forces were needed to occupy those areas that had already been pacified conquering, dominating, overpowering, subduing, subjecting, subjugating, subordinating, vanquishing annihilating, beating, clobbering, crushing, defeating, drubbing, licking, mowing (down), overcoming, prevailing (over), reducing, routing, skunking, smashing, thrashing, triumphing (over), trouncing, walloping, whippingenslavingbreaking, clamping down (on), cracking down (on), putting down, quashing, quelling, repressing, silencing, smothering, snuffing (out), squashing, squelching, suppressing discharging, emancipating, enfranchising, freeing, liberating, manumitting, releasing, springing, unbinding, uncaging, unchaining, unfettering |