mollifying

Definitions

Appeasing the anger or anxiety of someone.

Reducing the severity or intensity of something; softening.

Examples

She spoke in a mollifying tone to calm the agitated crowd.

The manager offered a refund as a mollifying gesture to appease the dissatisfied customer.

Synonyms

soothing pacifying placating appeasing calming conciliatory assuaging

Antonyms

provoking aggravating enraging inciting inflaming exasperating agitating