Mollify
/ˈmɒlɪfaɪ/ verb
verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
"Her calm explanation helped mollify their concerns."
- 2 make less rigid or softer wordnet
- 3 To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of.
"He tried to mollify the angry customer."
- 4 make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else wordnet
- 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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- 6 cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of wordnet
Example
More examples"You won’t mollify him with that explanation."
Etymology
From Middle English mollifien, from Late Latin mollificō, from Latin mollis (“soft”).