Word Meanings - ASSUAGEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mitigation; abatement.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASSUAGEMENT)

• Lull
• Quiet
• assuagement
• cessation
• quiescence
• subsidence

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ASSUAGEMENT)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad

Related words: (words related to ASSUAGEMENT)

• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• QUIETER
  One who, or that which, quiets.
• DISTURBANCE
  The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
• QUIET
  p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See While, and cf. Coy, a., Quiesce, Quietus, Quit, a., 1. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They
• ASSUAGEMENT
  Mitigation; abatement.
• ROUSER
  A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rouses. 2. Something very exciting or great.
• QUIETISM
  The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes. (more info) 1. Peace
• QUIETSOME
  Calm; still. Spenser.
• QUIETLY
  1. In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly. 2. Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly. 3. Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion;
• QUIETISTIC
  Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.
• CESSATION
  A ceasing of discontinuance, as of action, whether termporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward.
• SUBSIDENCE; SUBSIDENCY
  The act or process of subsiding. The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions. Bp. Warburton.
• AGITATEDLY
  In an agitated manner.
• QUIETAGE
  Quietness. Spenser.
• QUIETUS
  Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; rest; death. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.
• QUIESCENCE; QUIESCENCY
  The state or quality of being quiescent. "Quiescence, bodily and mental." H. Spencer. Deeds will be done; -- while be boasts his quiescence. R. Browning.
• DISTURB
  desturber, destourber, fr. L. disturbare, disturbatum; dis- + turbare 1. To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms
• DISTURBATION
  Act of disturbing; disturbance. Daniel.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• DISQUIETMENT
  State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins.
• AROUSE
  To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the
• CROUSE
  Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. Burns.
• OVERAGITATE
  To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall.
• DISQUIETOUS
  Causing uneasiness. So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men. Milton.
• INQUIETATION
  Disturbance. Sir T. Elyot.
• OVEREXCITE
  To excite too much.
• INQUIET
  To disquiet. Joye.