Word Meanings - SOOTHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To assent to as true. Testament of Love. 2. To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter. Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow. Shak. I've tried the

Additional info about word: SOOTHE

1. To assent to as true. Testament of Love. 2. To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter. Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow. Shak. I've tried the force of every reason on him, Soothed and caressed, been angry, soothed again. Addison. 3. To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows. Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. Congreve. Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing. Byron. Syn. -- To soften; assuage; allay; compose; mollify; tranquilize; pacify; mitigate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOOTHE)

• Allay
• soothe
• alleviate
• repress
• mitigate
• quiet
• moderate
• appease
• compose
• soften
• pacify
• mollify
• assuage
• tranquilize
• palliate
• culm
• Alleviate
• Lighten
• lessen
• relieve
• remit
• diminish
• Calm
• Smooth
• allay
• still
• Compose
• Construct
• compile
• calm
• put together
• constitute
• draw up
• frame
• form
• settle
• adjust
• write
• Console
• Relieve
• solace
• encourage
• comfort

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SOOTHE)

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

Related words: (words related to SOOTHE)

• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• 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.
• 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;
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• COMFORTABLY
  In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• LESSENER
  One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
• 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.
• 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
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• 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.
• 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.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.