SOOTHE, SOOTHING, SOOTHINGLY
ADJECTIVES
1375 — EASEFUL that gives ease, comfort, or relief; comfortable, soothing; quiet, peaceful, restful
1445 — DULCET pleasing or agreeable to the eye, ear, or feelings; soothing, gentle; mellifluous; later, used chiefly of sounds
1604 — BALMY deliciously soft and soothing
1656 — COMPLACENTIOUS complaisant, obsequious, soothing, and thereby, pleasing → obs.
1656 — DELENIFICAL soothing, pacifying, mitigating; making gentle; assuaging pain → obs.
1657 — LEVATIVE tending to alleviate or soothe; soothing → obs.
1658 — ANODYNOUS soothing the mind or feelings
1667 — BALSAMIC soothing, healing, gently restorative
1703 — ANODYNE soothing the mind or feelings
1819 — SOOTH soothing, soft; smooth → poetic usage
1875 — QUIETANT anything that makes quiet or soothes
1904 — ANODYNIC soothing the mind or feelings
1928 — QUEELIE cooling; soothing → Sc.
ADVERBS
1508 — DULCELY in a sweet or pleasing way; soothingly → obs.
NOUNS
1429 — MYRRH something which soothes, heals, or preserves
1647 — ANODYNE something which counteracts a source of misery or difficulty; something that soothes the mind or feelings
1888 — BESOOTHMENT the act of soothing; its means or resulting state (Bk.)
..L19 — BALMEDEST BALM the ultimate in soothing → sl.
1900 — SOOTHMENT a soothing influence
VERBS
1340 — FAGE to coax, to flatter; to toady; to beguile, to soothe → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1350 — ACCOY to still, to calm, to quiet, to appease; hence, to soothe or coax (the alarmed or shy), to tame, to silence, to daunt (the forward or bold) → obs.
1400 — BALM to soothe, to alleviate pain, sorrow, etc. → arch.
1425 — DULCORATE to sweeten; to soften, to soothe, to ease → obs.
1475 — ADDULCE to make sweet; to render pleasant or palatable; to soothe or mollify a person → obs.
1530 — DEMULCE to soothe, mollify, pacify, appease → obs.
1531 — BEMULCE to soothe or soften
1535 — ACQUIET to set at rest, to quiet, to pacify. to calm, to soothe → obs.
1577 — SALVE to soothe, to mitigate, to assuage → obs.
1586 — DULCERATE to sweeten; to soften, to soothe, to ease
1604 — SMOOTH to render the mind, etc. clam or tranquil; to soothe
1613 — BECALM to assuage, to mitigate, to soothe, to tranquillize
1622 — LENIATE to render mild or soft; to soften, to soothe, to make calm → obs.
1653 — MULCIFY to allay, to soothe → obs.
1657 — TRANQUILLITATE to render tranquil, to calm, to soothe, to mitigate, to alleviate → obs.
1678 — MEASE to soothe, to mitigate, to calm → Sc.
1775 — DILL to soothe; to allay, to assuage, to deaden or take away pain; to still, to deaden sound; to lull a child to sleep; to render insensible by an anaesthetic → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1781 — DAVE to assuage, to mitigate, to relieve; to soothe → Eng. dial.
1816 — STROKE WITH THE HAIR to soothe → Sc.
1837 — DEMULCEATE to soothe or mollify a person → obs.
.M19 — SHOOT THE SALVE to talk in a conciliatory, soothing manner → US sl.
.M19 — SPREAD THE SALVE to talk in a conciliatory, soothing manner → US sl.
1886 — PEACIFY to make calm, to pacify; to soothe, quiet, or subdue
1911 — BEET to soothe; to mitigate → Sc. (Bk.)