Synonyms for mollify
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Assuage — to ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort
assuage, soothe, calm, allay, abate, mitigate, quell, alleviate, relieve, lessen, salve, ease, blunt, comfort, compose, quiet, dull, smooth, tranquilize US, tranquillise UK, tranquillize UK, palliate, diminish, slacken
2. Pacify — to appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of
pacify, placate, appease, conciliate, propitiate, satisfy, gentle, gruntle, subdue, gratify, lenify dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
Her calm explanation helped mollify their concerns.
- v. 2
To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of.
He tried to mollify the angry customer.
- v. 3
To soften; to make tender.
Related words
- Word family
- mollification
Forms
- Past participle
- mollified
e.g. mollified → assuaged, soothed, calmed, allayed…
Example sentences
- calm Take a seat in the armchair and calm down a while.
- soothe I'll have to do something to soothe away this pain.
- allay She tried to allay their fears but only ended up heightening them.
- assuage This medicine will assuage the pain.
- placate A compromise was reached to placate both sides.
- pacify Tom was very aggressive again. They had to pacify him.
By length
- 4 letters
- calm1, ease1, melt1, dull1
- 5 letters
- quiet2, blunt1, quell1, salve1, allay2, abate2
- 6 letters
- season2, smooth1, gentle2, temper2, lessen2, soften2, soothe1, subdue2, pacify3, lenify
- 7 letters
- comfort2, satisfy3, relieve2, compose2, appease2, placate2, assuage2, gratify3, slacken2, gruntle
- 8 letters
- moderate3, mitigate3, diminish3, palliate, deharden
- 9 letters
- alleviate4, tenderize, tenderise
- 10 letters
- conciliate, propitiate
- 11 letters
- tranquilize3
- 12 letters
- tranquillise, tranquillize
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (quiet2 = 2 syllables).