Word Meanings - PACIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity. "Pray ye, pacify yourself." Shak.
Additional info about word: PACIFY
To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity. "Pray ye, pacify yourself." Shak. To pacify and settle those countries. Bacon.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PACIFY)
- Allay
- soothe
- alleviate
- repress
- mitigate
- quiet
- moderate
- appease
- compose
- soften
- pacify
- mollify
- assuage
- tranquilize
- palliate
- culm
- Calm
- Smooth
- allay
- still
- Compose
- Construct
- compile
- calm
- put together
- constitute
- draw up
- frame
- form
- settle
- adjust
- write
- Conciliate
- Win
- gain
- enlist
- make friendly
- reconcile
- propitiate
- Propitiate
- secure
- win
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PACIFY)
Related words: (words related to PACIFY)
- STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - STILLBIRTH
The birth of a dead fetus. - EXPOSER
One who exposes or discloses. - 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 - CONSTRUCT
together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order; - ADJUSTIVE
Tending to adjust. - REPRESSIBLE
Capable of being repressed. - SETTLEMENT
A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles, - STILLSTAND
A standstill. Shak. - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - STILLING
A stillion. - EXPOSEDNESS
The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - WRITER
1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer - STILLAGE
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight. - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - SECURER
One who, or that which, secures. - UNFRAME
To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden. - REWRITE
To write again. Young. - INSTILL
To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To - PISTILLIFEROUS
Pistillate. - REENLISTMENT
A renewed enlistment. - 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. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - EFFLAGITATE
To ask urgently. Cockeram. - STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17. - DISQUIETLY
In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman. - UNQUIET
To disquiet. Ld. Herbert. - CAPACIFY
To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.