Meaning of ASSUASIVE
| Pronunciation: | | u'sweysiv
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| | Definition: | | [adj] freeing from fear and anxiety |
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| | Synonyms: | | calming, pacifying, reassuring, soothing |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \As*sua"sive\, a. [From assuage, as if this were fr. a
supposed L. assuadere to persuade to; or from E. pref. ad +
-suasive as in persuasive.]
Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing. [R.]
Music her soft assuasive voice applies. --Pope.
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| | Related Terms: | | alleviating, alleviative, altering, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, bounding, calmant, calmative, cathartic, cleansing, deadening, demulcent, dulling, easing, emollient, extenuating, extenuatory, lenitive, limitative, limiting, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying, modulatory, numbing, pain-killing, palliative, purgative, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, relieving, remedial, restricting, restrictive, sedative, softening, soothing, subduing |
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