mollify

mollify is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.
2. transitive verb. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
3. verb. make less rigid or softer
4. verb. make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate

   "she tempered her criticism"

   Synonyms: season, temper

5. verb. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

   "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

   Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, pacify, placate

Synonyms

season, temper, appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, pacify, placate

Common word forms

mollified, mollifier, mollifies, mollifying

Words from these letters

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