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soothingadjective tending to calm the emotions and relieve stressthe soothing music eventually put the entire yoga class in the proper mood calming, comforting, dreamy, lulling, narcotic, pacifying, quieting, relaxing, sedative, 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 not harsh or stern especially in nature or effectspoke to the boy in a soothing voice balmy, benign, bland, delicate, gentle, light, mellow, mild, nonabrasive, soft, tender calm, pacific, peaceful, placid, quiet, serene, tranquilclement, compassionate, easy, lenient, mercifulbuffering, cushioning, emollient, softeningsleek, slick, smooth abrasive, caustic, coarse, hard, harsh, rough, scathing, stern, ungentle exquisite, fierce, intense, powerful, severeforceful, forcible, savage, violentroughened, rugged, strongabrading, irritating, rougheninggrim, gruff, rude, stiffheavy-handed, oppressive, pitiless, tyrannical(also tyrannic) soothingverbpresent participle of sootheto ease the grief or distress ofthere seemed to be no words sufficient to soothe the bereaved parents assuring, cheering, comforting, consoling, reassuring, solacing commiserating, condoling, empathizing, sympathizingboosting, buoying (up), elevating, lifting, upliftingallaying, alleviating, assuaging, relievingcalming, quieting, relaxing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) distressing, tormenting, torturing, troubling demoralizing, discouraging, dishearteningfretting, upsetting, worryingaggravating, intensifying, worseningannoying, irking, irritatingharassing, pestering to free from distress or disturbancesoothed the baby with a bottle becalming, calming, composing, lullabying, lulling, quietening(chiefly British), quieting, salving, settling, stilling, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) appeasing, conciliating, hushing, mollifying, pacifying, placatingallaying, alleviating, assuaging, easing, laying, mitigating, quelling, relaxing, relieving, solacingnarcotizing, sedating, stupefying agitating, discomposing, disquieting, disturbing, keying (up), perturbing, upsetting, vexing aggravating, heightening, intensifyingarousing, exciting, fomenting, inciting, rousing, stirring (up), working up to make more bearable or less severehot tea with honey will soothe a sore throat allaying, alleviating, assuaging, easing, helping, mitigating, mollifying, palliating, relieving abating, lightening, moderating, softening, temperingcuring, healing, remedyingamending, correcting, emending, fixing, mending, rectifying, reforming, repairingameliorating, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfecting, refining aggravating, exacerbating harming, hurting, impairing, injuringheightening, intensifying, sharpening in 1700 |