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mollifyingadjective tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostilitya future son-in-law using mollifying flattery to overcome a bad first impression appeasing, conciliating, conciliatory, disarming, pacific, pacifying, 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 ofan apology would probably mollify your friend appeasing, assuaging, conciliating, disarming, gentling, pacifying, 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 make more bearable or less severea friendly gesture that did a lot to mollify their suspicions about the new neighbor allaying, alleviating, assuaging, easing, helping, mitigating, palliating, relieving, soothing 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 |