Softening Synonyms and Antonyms

Make (images or sounds) soft or softer
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. relenting
  2. relaxing
  3. soothing
  4. assuage
  5. yielding
  6. edulcorate
  7. intenerate
  8. macerate
  9. mitigate
  10. bending
  11. moderate
  12. pacifying
  13. mollify
  14. muffle
  15. mollifying
  16. mute
  17. melting
  18. palliate
  19. soften
  20. thawing
  21. temper
  22. sweetening
  23. weakening
  24. tempering
  25. subduing
  26. propitiating
  27. calming
  28. diminishing
  29. giving
  30. qualifying
  31. placating
  32. palliating
  33. assuaging
  34. lessening
  35. modulating
  36. moderating
  37. modifying
  38. mitigating
  39. mellowing
  40. gentling
  41. appeasing
  42. mashing
  43. conciliating
  44. extenuating
  45. disintegrating
  46. easing
  47. alleviating
  48. abating
  49. dissolving
Antonyms:
  1. sharpening
  2. standing
  3. freezing
  4. stiffening
  5. hardening
Give in, as to influence or pressure
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. yielding
  2. weakening
  3. breaking
  4. relenting
  5. slackening
  6. dampening
Having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. demulcent
  2. emollient
  3. assuasive
  4. crumbly
  5. ductile
  6. emulsive
  7. flaccid
  8. friable
  9. lenient
  10. lenitive
  11. malleable
  12. mitigatory
  13. mollescent
  14. mollient
  15. mollifying
  16. pianissimo
  17. pliable
  18. relaxing
  19. salving
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. maceration
  2. mollescence
  3. susurration
  4. undertone

Words Related to Softening

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Softening Sentence Examples

  • He glanced at her, his face softening.

  • Instead of the horror Deidre expected to see, Daniela's face warmed even more, softening the skin around her eyes.

  • She dropped her things by the wardrobe and crossed to it, softening.

  • He truly lost himself in music and the hard mask of self-control gave way to softening features.

  • Her face had already begun softening, and the warm sienna reclaimed her eyes.

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