Mollify

//ˈmɒlɪfaɪ// verb

verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.

    "Her calm explanation helped mollify their concerns."

  2. 2
    make less rigid or softer wordnet
  3. 3
    To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of.

    "He tried to mollify the angry customer."

  4. 4
    make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else wordnet
  5. 5
    To soften; to make tender.

    "Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire."

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  1. 6
    cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of wordnet

Synonyms

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pacifyappeaseappeaseassuageassuagecalm

Antonyms

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enrage

Example

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"You won’t mollify him with that explanation."

Etymology

From Middle English mollifien, from Late Latin mollificō, from Latin mollis (“soft”).

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good will

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