mollify
(verb) make less rigid or softer
temper, season, mollify, moderate
(verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; “she tempered her criticism”
pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle
(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; “She managed to mollify the angry customer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mollify (third-person singular simple present mollifies, present participle mollifying, simple past and past participle mollified)
To ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort.
To appease (anger), pacify, gain the good will of.
To soften; to make tender
• (to ease a burden): assuage, calm, comfort, mitigate, soothe
• (to appease): appease, conciliate, pacify, placate, propitiate, satisfy
• See also calm
Source: Wiktionary
Mol"li*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mollified; p. pr. & vb. n. Mollifying.] Etym: [F. mollifier, L. mollificare; mollis soft + - ficare (in comp.) to make. See Enmollient, Moil, v. t., and -fy.]
1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. Spenser.
2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
