Synonyms:
assuasive, soothing
Meaning: freeing from fear and anxiety
Synonyms:
soothing
Meaning: affording physical relief; "a soothing ointment for her sunburn"
Usage examples
The girl was bending over Jim, one hand soothing his forehead.
Her husband, with a soothing touch on her arm, brought her back to the present.
"Ah! well, dear," he said in a soothing tone; "we won't talk any more about it.
'I never thought you had told us anything but the truth,' said Rose, soothing him.
He led him by the arm towards a door leading into the building itself, soothing him all the time.
The night wind sighed a soothing lullaby through the spines of the she-oak, and his spirit passed peacefully away with the ebb.
Startling as was the explanation, yet it proved soothing to Don Diego, being so much less startling than the things he was beginning to imagine.
"Well-a-well!" (in a soothing tone, such as you use to irritated children), and as if half to herself, "I only thought you might, you know, as you brought her home.
After a week of physical anguish, Unrest and pain, and feverish heat, Toward the ending day a calm and lull comes on, Three hours of peace and soothing rest of brain.
When properly played, it produces soft, melodious music that, to say nothing else, must exert a gentle soothing influence on the wild, turbulent souls of a herd of goats.