| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Being satisfying.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being deadening. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being flattering. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being tranquillizing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being bland or mild. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being gentle, meek or forgiving. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being calm or cool. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being decreasing, diminishing or dwindling. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being soothing or tranquillising. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Being enticing or tempting.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb mollify.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (mollify) | 1. Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer".[Wordnet]. 2. Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate.[Wordnet]. 3. Make less rigid or softer.[Wordnet]. 4. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.[Websters]. 5. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: mollifying, mollified, mollifies, mollifier, mollifiers, mollifyingly and mollifiedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "MOLLIFYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references) |
Specialty Definition: mollify
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To soften; to make soft or tender. Is.1.. | 2: [Verb] To assuage, as pain or irritation.. | 3: [Verb] To appease; to pacify; to calm or quiet.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] To appease, gain the good will of. (references) | 2: [Verb] To ease a burden; make less painful; to comfort. (references) | |
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