Synonyms for Mollify:

n.
- smooth someone's ruffled feathers
• conciliate
- conciliate
v.
• allay
- cooled out
- cooling out
- cools out
- de crease
- de creased
- de creases
- de creasing
- de-crease
- de-creased
- de-creases
- de-creasing
- made nice
- making nice
- play to
- played to
- played up to
- playing to
- playing up to
- plays to
- plays up to
- poured oil on
- pouring oil on
- pours oil on
- take bite out
- takes bite out
- takes sting out
- takes the bite out
- takes the sting out
- taking bite out
- taking sting out
- taking the bite out
- taking the sting out
- took bite out
- took sting out
- took the bite out
- took the sting out
• alleviate
- softpedal
- take edge off
- takes edge off
- takes the edge off
- taking edge off
- took edge off
- took the edge off
• appease
- am enough
- are enough
- being enough
- is enough
- made matters up
- makes matters up
- making matters up
- met halfway
- patched things up
- patches things up
- patching things up
- sub due
- sub dues
- sub-due
- sub-dues
- was enough
- wast enough
- wert enough
• calm
- balming
- be calmed
- be calming
- be calms
- be-calm
- be-calmed
- be-calming
- be-calms
- cooled it
- cooling it
- cools it
- laying back
- lays back
- re lax
- re-lax
- simmered down
- simmering down
- simmers down
- take easy
- takes easy
- taking easy
- took easy
- took it easy
• change
- mollify
• content
- be witch
- be witched
- be witches
- be witching
- be-witch
- be-witched
- be-witches
- be-witching
- de light
- de lighted
- de lighting
- de lights
- de-light
- de-lighted
- de-lighting
- de-lights
- made happy
- makes happy
- making happy
• defuse
- de activate
- de activated
- de activates
- de activating
- de fuse
- de fused
- de fuses
- de fusing
- de militarize
- de militarized
- de militarizes
- de militarizing
- de-activate
- de-activates
- de-fuse
- de-fused
- de-fuses
- de-fusing
- de-militarize
- de-militarized
- de-militarizes
- de-militarizing
- demilitarizes
- demilitarizing
- re strain
- re strained
- re straining
- re strains
- re-strain
- re-strained
- re-straining
- re-strains
• dulcify
- dulcorated
- dulcorates
- dulcorating
• ease
- attending to
- attends to
- clear way
- cleared the way
- cleared way
- clearing the way
- clearing way
- clears the way
- clears way
- dis burden
- dis burdened
- dis burdening
- dis burdens
- dis engage
- dis engaged
- dis engages
- dis engaging
- dis-burden
- dis-burdened
- dis-burdening
- dis-burdens
- dis-engage
- dis-engaged
- dis-engages
- dis-engaging
- let upon
- lets up on
- lets upon
- letted up on
- letted upon
- letting up on
- letting upon
- makes easier
- making easier
- opened door
- opening door
- opening the door
- opens door
- opens the door
- pro moting
- pro-mote
- pro-motes
- pro-moting
- ran interference for
- re lease
- re leases
- re-lease
- re-leased
- re-leases
- running interference for
- runs interference for
- speeds up
• lighten
- dis encumber
- dis encumbered
- dis encumbering
- dis encumbers
- dis-encumber
- dis-encumbered
- dis-encumbering
- dis-encumbers
- made less
- makes less
- makes lighter
- making less
- making lighter
- re duce
- re duces
- re move
- re moved
- re moving
- re-duce
- re-duces
- re-move
- re-moves
- re-moving
- take load off
- takes a load off
- takes load off
- taking a load off
- taking load off
- took a load off
- took load off
- un burden
- un burdened
- un burdening
- un burdens
- un load
- un loaded
- un loading
- un loads
- un-burden
- un-burdened
- un-burdening
- un-burdens
- un-load
- un-loads
- up light
- up lighted
- up lighting
- up lights
- up raise
- up raised
- up raising
- up-light
- up-lighted
- up-lighting
- up-lights
- up-raise
- up-raised
- up-raises
- up-raising
- uplighted
- uplighting
• mellow
- grows up
- mildened
- mildening
- mildens
• melt
- became lenient
- becomes lenient
- becoming lenient
- dis armed
- dis arming
- dis arms
- dis-armed
- dis-arming
- dis-arms
• mitigate
- came together
• moderate
- de cline
- de clines
- de-cline
- de-clines
- dieing down
- eased off
- eases off
- re press
- re pressed
- re presses
- re pressing
- re-presses
- re-pressing
- sub side
- sub sided
- sub sides
- sub-sides
• pacify
- ebb
Other synonyms:

•

pour oil on troubled water

Other relevant words:

• alleviate

soft pedal
take the edge off

• calm

• content

• dulcify

• lighten

• make peace

smooth

• moderate

• pacify

• quiet

• relieve

take load off one's chest
take load off one's mind

• satisfy

• smooth

• soothe

Soothed
soothe

• sugarcoat

• Other relevant words (adjective):

mature

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

What are the hypernyms for Mollify?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
appease, assuage, calm, pacify, placate, quiet, soothe.

What are the hyponyms for Mollify?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for mollify (as verbs)
- change
  soften, weaken.

What are the opposite words for mollify?

Mollify is a verb that means to soothe or appease someone's anger or agitation. Some antonyms for mollify include provoke, aggravate, irritate, and agitate. These words indicate that the opposite of mollify is to incite or intensify someone's frustration, anger, or anxiety. Other antonyms for mollify include antagonize, infuriate, enrage, and enflame, which suggest that the opposite of mollify is to create hostility and animosity. Therefore, using these antonyms of mollify can help us understand the different degrees of emotional impact and intensity, which can be useful when conveying nuanced emotions and perspectives in writing or speech.

What are the antonyms for Mollify?

v.
• abuse, offend
- insult
• affront
- Dispraised
- Dispraising
- dis praise
- dis praised
- dis praises
- dis praising
- dis-praise
- dis-praised
- dis-praises
- dis-praising
- dispraise
- dispraises
- dump on
- dumped on
- dumping on
- dumps on
- encounter
- gave a zinger
- gave zinger
- give a zinger
- give cold shoulder
- give zinger
- gives a zinger
- gives zinger
- giving a zinger
- giving zinger
- hit where lives
- hit where one lives
- hits where lives
- hits where one lives
- hitting where lives
- hitting where one lives
- offend
- out rage
- out raged
- out rages
- out raging
- out-rage
- out-raged
- out-rages
- out-raging
- provoke
- put down
• aggravate
- Bummed
- Bumming
- Hacked
- Hacking
- am at
- am back of
- am on back of
- am on the back of
- am the back of
- are at
- are back of
- are on back of
- are on the back of
- are the back of
- art at
- art back of
- art the back of
- be at
- be back of
- be on back of
- be on the back of
- be the back of
- being at
- being back of
- being on back of
- being on the back of
- being the back of
- drave the wall
- drave up the wall
- drave up wall
- drave wall
- drive the wall
- drive up the wall
- drive up wall
- drive wall
- drives the wall
- drives up the wall
- drives up wall
- drives wall
- driving the wall
- driving up the wall
- driving up wall
- driving wall
- drove the wall
- drove up the wall
- drove up wall
- drove wall
- ex acerbate
- ex acerbated
- ex acerbating
- ex-acerbated
- ex-acerbates
- ex-acerbating
- gall
- gat nerves
- gat on nerves
- gat on one nerves
- gat on one's nerves
- gat on ones nerves
- gat one nerves
- gat one's nerves
- gat ones nerves
- gat to
- gave a hard time
- gave hard time
- get nerves
- get on one nerves
- get on one's nerves
- get on ones nerves
- get one nerves
- get one's nerves
- get ones nerves
- get to
- gets nerves
- gets on nerves
- gets on one nerves
- gets on one's nerves
- gets on ones nerves
- gets one nerves
- gets one's nerves
- gets ones nerves
- gets to
- getting nerves
- getting on nerves
- getting on one nerves
- getting on one's nerves
- getting on ones nerves
- getting one nerves
- getting one's nerves
- getting ones nerves
- getting to
- give a hard time
- give hard time
- gives a hard time
- gives hard time
- giving a hard time
- giving hard time
- got nerves
- got on nerves
- got on one nerves
- got on one's nerves
- got on ones nerves
- got one nerves
- got one's nerves
- got ones nerves
- got to
- gotten nerves
- gotten on nerves
- gotten on one nerves
- gotten on one's nerves
- gotten on ones nerves
- gotten one nerves
- gotten one's nerves
- gotten ones nerves
- gotten to
- in crease
- in creases
- in creasing
- in flame
- in flamed
- in flames
- in flaming
- in-crease
- in-creased
- in-creases
- in-flame
- in-flamed
- in-flames
- irk
- irritates
- is at
- is back of
- is on back of
- is on the back of
- is the back of
- nag
- needling
- picks on
- was at
- was back of
- was on back of
- was on the back of
- was the back of
- wast at
- wast back of
- wast on back of
- wast on the back of
- wast the back of
- were at
- were back of
- were on back of
- were on the back of
- were the back of
- wert at
- wert back of
- wert on back of
- wert on the back of
- wert the back of
- wigged
- wigging
• anger
- boil over
- boiled over
- boiling over
- boils over
- burn up
- burned up
- burning up
- burns up
- burnt up
- ex cite
- ex cited
- ex cites
- ex citing
- ex-cite
- ex-cited
- ex-cites
- gat mad
- get mad
- got mad
- gotten mad
- in cense
- in censed
- in censes
- in-cense
- in-censed
- in-censes
- in-censing
- lose one temper
- lose ones temper
- made sore
- make sore
- makes sore
- making sore
- raise hell
- raised hell
- raises hell
- raising hell
- steam up
- steamed up
- steaming up
- stir up
- stirred up
- stirring up
- stirs up
- umbraged
- umbraging
• anger, upset
- rile
• annoy
- aggravate
- ask for it
- asked for it
- asking for it
- asks for it
- be devil
- be deviled
- be deviling
- be devilled
- be devilling
- be devils
- be leaguer
- be leaguered
- be leaguering
- be leaguers
- be-devil
- be-deviled
- be-deviling
- be-devilled
- be-devilling
- be-devils
- be-leaguer
- be-leaguered
- be-leaguering
- be-leaguers
- dis tress
- dis tressed
- dis tresses
- dis-tress
- dis-tressed
- dis-tresses
- fire up
- fires up
- firing up
- heat up
- heated up
- heating up
- heats up
- make waves
- makes waves
- making waves
- pushed button
- pushes button
- pushing button
- t off
- t offing
- t offs
- t-offing
- t-offs
- tick off
- ticked off
- ticking off
- ticks off
- toff
- toffed
- toffing
- toffs
- work on
- worked on
- working on
- works on
- wrought on
• annoy, irritate
- rankle
• bother, annoy
- peeve
• displease
- Discontenting
- Winging
- curdled
- curdling
- cut quick
- cut the quick
- cut to quick
- cut to the quick
- cuts quick
- cuts the quick
- cuts to quick
- cuts to the quick
- cutting quick
- cutting the quick
- cutting to quick
- cutting to the quick
- dis appoint
- dis appointed
- dis appointing
- dis appoints
- dis content
- dis contented
- dis contenting
- dis contents
- dis gust
- dis gusted
- dis gusting
- dis gusts
- dis oblige
- dis obliged
- dis obliges
- dis obliging
- dis please
- dis pleased
- dis pleases
- dis pleasing
- dis satisfied
- dis satisfies
- dis satisfy
- dis satisfying
- dis-appoint
- dis-appointed
- dis-appointing
- dis-appoints
- dis-content
- dis-contented
- dis-contenting
- dis-contents
- dis-gust
- dis-gusted
- dis-gusting
- dis-gusts
- dis-oblige
- dis-obliged
- dis-obliges
- dis-obliging
- dis-please
- dis-pleased
- dis-pleases
- dis-pleasing
- dis-satisfied
- dis-satisfies
- dis-satisfy
- dis-satisfying
- re volt
- re volts
- re-volt
- re-volts
- up set
- up sets
- up setting
- up-set
- up-sets
- up-setting
- zinged
• distress, bother
- vex
• exasperate
- ex asperate
- ex asperates
- ex asperating
- ex-asperate
- ex-asperated
- ex-asperates
- ex-asperating
- get under one skin
- get under ones skin
- tried patience of
- tried the patience of
- tries patience of
- tries the patience of
- try patience of
- try the patience of
- trying the patience of
• get
- gat someone goat
- gat someone's goat
- gat someones goat
- get someone goat
- get someone's goat
- get someones goat
- gets someone goat
- gets someone's goat
- gets someones goat
- getting someone goat
- getting someones goat
- got someone goat
- got someone's goat
- gotten someone goat
- gotten someone's goat
- gotten someones goat
- rub wrong way
• insult
- blistered
- de base
- de based
- de basing
- de grade
- de graded
- de grades
- de grading
- de ride
- de rides
- de riding
- de-base
- de-based
- de-basing
- de-grade
- de-graded
- de-grades
- de-grading
- de-ride
- de-rides
- de-riding
- dis honor
- dis honored
- dis honoring
- dis honors
- dis-honor
- dis-honored
- dis-honoring
- dis-honors
- re vile
- re-vile
- step on one toes
- step on one's toes
- step on ones toes
- step on toes
- step one toes
- step one's toes
- step ones toes
- step toes
- stepped on one toes
- stepped on toes
- stepped one toes
- stepped one's toes
- stepped ones toes
- stepped toes
- stepping on one toes
- stepping on one's toes
- stepping on ones toes
- stepping on toes
- stepping one toes
- stepping one's toes
- stepping ones toes
- steps on one's toes
- steps on ones toes
- steps on toes
- steps one toes
- steps one's toes
- steps ones toes
- steps toes
- under estimate
- under estimated
- under estimates
- under-estimate
- under-estimated
- under-estimates
- under-estimating
• insult or involve in entanglement
- affront
• irk
- dis commode
- dis commodes
- dis-commode
- dis-commodes
- get on nerves
- in commode
- in commodes
- in conveniences
- in-commodes
- in-convenience
- in-conveniences
• irritate
- Distempered
- Distempering
- dis temper
- dis tempered
- dis tempering
- dis tempers
- dis-temper
- dis-tempered
- dis-tempering
- dis-tempers
- get under skin
• irritate, upset
- get
• make someone mad; become mad
- anger
• miff
- miff
- miffed
- re sent
- re sents
- re-sent
- re-sents
• nettle
- Nettles
- Tiffed
- Tiffing
- snitted
- snitting
• noun
- arouse
- bother
- bug
- burn
- cross
- distress
- exacerbate
- fan
- fret
- harass
- harm
- harry
- heighten
- hurt
- impair
- incense
- infuriate
- injure
- intensify
- ire
- kindle
- madden
- nettle
- outrage
- pique
- put out
- rouse
- ruffle
- sharpen
- slight
- stir
- upset
- worry
• offend
- am disagreeable
- are disagreeable
- art disagreeable
- be disagreeable
- being disagreeable
- is disagreeable
- re pulsed
- re pulses
- re pulsing
- re-pulsed
- re-pulses
- re-pulsing
- turned one off
- turning one off
- turns one off
- was disagreeable
- wast disagreeable
- were disagreeable
• pacify, soothe
- agitate
- depress
- develop
- enlarge
- exasperate
- excite
- expand
- extend
- grow
- incite
- increase
- irritate
- prolong
- raise
- trouble
- worsen
• peeve
- gat goat
- gat one goat
- gat one's goat
- gat ones goat
- get goat
- get one goat
- get one's goat
- get ones goat
- gets goat
- gets one goat
- gets one's goat
- gets ones goat
- getting goat
- getting one goat
- getting one's goat
- getting ones goat
- got goat
- got one's goat
- got ones goat
- gotten goat
- gotten one goat
- gotten one's goat
- gotten ones goat
• pique
- gat a rise out of
- gat rise out of
- gave the business
- get a rise out of
- get rise out of
- gets a rise out of
- gets rise out of
- getting a rise out of
- getting rise out of
- give business
- give the business
- gives business
- gives the business
- giving business
- giving the business
- goosed
- gooses
- goosing
- got a rise out of
- got rise out of
- gotten a rise out of
- gotten rise out of
• rile
- rub one wrong way
- rubbed one wrong way
- rubbing one the wrong way
- rubbing one wrong way
- rubs one the wrong way
- rubs one wrong way
- tried one patience
- tried one's patience
- tried ones patience
- tried patience
- tries one patience
- tries one's patience
- tries ones patience
- tries patience
- try one patience
- try one's patience
- try ones patience
- trying one patience
- trying one's patience
- trying ones patience
- trying patience
• tease, annoy
- needle
• vex
- de press
- de pressed
- de presses
- de pressing
- de-press
- de-pressed
- de-presses
- de-pressing
- dis quiet
- dis quieted
- dis quieting
- dis quiets
- dis-quiet
- dis-quieted
- dis-quieting
- dis-quiets
- gat hair
- gat in hair
- gat in one hair
- gat in one's hair
- gat in ones hair
- gat one hair
- gat one's hair
- gat ones hair
- gave a bad time
- get in one hair
- get in one's hair
- get in ones hair
- get one hair
- get one's hair
- get ones hair
- gets hair
- gets in hair
- gets in one hair
- gets in ones hair
- gets one hair
- gets one's hair
- gets ones hair
- getting hair
- getting in hair
- getting in one hair
- getting in one's hair
- getting in ones hair
- getting one hair
- getting one's hair
- getting ones hair
- give a bad time
- give bad time
- gives a bad time
- gives bad time
- giving a bad time
- got hair
- got in hair
- got in one hair
- got in one's hair
- got in ones hair
- got ones hair
- gotten hair
- gotten in hair
- gotten in one hair
- gotten in one's hair
- gotten one hair
- grated on
- grates on
- grating on
Other relevant words:

Usage examples for Mollify

This concession, I observed, would immediately mollify the old man; and, after walking over a field or two in silence, with his hands behind his back, chewing the cud of reflection, he would suddenly turn to the Squire, and observe, that "he had been turning the matter over in his mind, and, upon the whole, he believed he would take his honour's advice."

"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"

Washington Irving

She was doing all she could to help him out, and the fact helped to further mollify him.

"The Son of his Father"

Ridgwell Cullum

He discovered, however, that whatever errand they had been sent on, they had failed in accomplishing it, and his own capture began to be considered by him as a peace offering with which they intended to mollify Wacora's wrath at their want of success in the mission with which they had been charged.

"The White Squaw"

Mayne Reid

Related words: mollify synonyms, mollify an argument, mollify a customer, mollify an angry person, mollify a difficult person, to mollify, to appease

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