Synonyms of disarming

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adjective

1

as in adorable

having qualities that tend to make one loved

a thoroughly disarming little rascal who can talk his way out of any trouble

Synonyms & Similar Words

• adorable
• dear
• sweet
• beautiful
• loved
• charming
• precious
• lovely
• endearing
• lovable
• winning
• enchanting
• loveable
• darling
• attractive
• winsome
• appealing
• beloved
• delightful
• desirable
• engaging
• cherished
• lovesome
• favored
• admirable
• fascinating
• alluring
• entrancing
• likeable
• cheerful
• favorite
• treasured
• likable
• pleasant
• embraceable
• captivating
• kind
• kissable
• gracious
• pleasing
• friendly
• affable
• nice
• good-natured
• genial
• fetching
• agreeable
• cordial
• reputable
• respectable
• well-disposed
• good-tempered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• offensive
• detestable
• odious
• loathsome
• hateful
• unpleasant
• abhorrent
• abominable
• disagreeable
• horrible
• grotesque
• disgusting
• distasteful
• wretched
• contemptible
• repulsive
• heinous
• nasty
• repugnant
• monstrous
• unloved
• unlovable
• hideous
• ugly
• repellent
• lousy
• frightful
• unattractive
• shocking
• awful
• vile
• appalling
• revolting
• obnoxious
• sickening
• dreadful
• unlikable
• scandalous
• unsightly
• obscene
• foul
• horrid
• repellant
• ogreish
• horrendous
• nauseating
• ill-favored
• noisome

2

as in charming

likely or intended to win one's affection

there's a disarming lack of pretension about the girl

Synonyms & Similar Words

• charming
• adorable
• ingratiating
• affecting
• winning
• endearing
• likeable
• insinuating
• touching
• winsome
• loveable
• likable
• lovable
• poignant
• servile
• deferential
• effusive
• obsequious
• flattering
• sycophantic
• saccharine
• grovelling
• soapy
• sugary
• oleaginous
• kowtowing
• adulatory
• drooling
• slobbering
• unctuous
• fulsome
• slavering
• groveling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• alienating
• repulsive
• displeasing
• uningratiating
• repugnant
• unendearing
• disaffecting
• arrogant
• proud
• insolent
• haughty
• scornful
• disdainful

3

as in conciliatory

tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostility

the secretary's disarming smile made me forget why I was angry

Synonyms & Similar Words

• conciliatory
• soothing
• comforting
• peaceful
• placatory
• calming
• appeasing
• benevolent
• kind
• conciliating
• quieting
• mollifying
• gentle
• pacific
• placating
• pacifying
• satisfying
• relaxing
• propitiatory
• peacemaking
• ingratiating
• kindly
• endearing
• winning
• peaceable
• passive
• tranquilizing
• obliging
• winsome
• nonbelligerent
• amiable
• unassertive
• tranquillizing
• good-natured
• surrendering
• unaggressive
• lulling
• affable
• yielding
• submissive
• amicable
• genial
• agreeable
• good-tempered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• provoking
• provocative
• inflammatory
• aggravating
• irritating
• offensive
• annoying
• engaging
• exasperating
• abrasive
• frustrating
• maddening
• vexing
• irksome
• antagonizing
• infuriating
• nagging
• hostile
• galling
• antagonistic
• unfriendly
• nettling
• nettlesome
• riling
• military
• confrontational
• aggressive
• inhospitable
• inimical
• belligerent
• combative
• antipathetic
• assertive
• unsympathetic
• rankling
• pugnacious
• bellicose
• chafing
• warlike
• incensing
• truculent
• militant
• militaristic
• quarrelsome
• contentious
• argumentative
• martial
• scrappy
• agonistic

disarming

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verb

present participle of disarm

1

as in demilitarizing

to reduce the size and strength of the armed forces of

the defeated nation was disarmed so that it would never again be a threat to international order

Synonyms & Similar Words

• demilitarizing
• demobilizing
• denuclearizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• arming
• militarizing
• equipping
• mobilizing
• reequipping
• mechanizing
• re-equipping
• weaponing
• embattling

2

as in appeasing

to lessen the anger or agitation of

her future father-in-law was totally disarmed by her easy charm

Synonyms & Similar Words

• appeasing
• comforting
• calming
• soothing
• placating
• pacifying
• consoling
• conciliating
• mollifying
• pleasing
• propitiating
• satisfying
• assuaging
• ingratiating
• quieting
• gentling
• delighting
• tranquillizing
• tranquilizing
• gratifying
• contenting
• coaxing
• humoring
• flattering
• endearing (to)
• gladdening
• hushing
• cajoling
• satiating
• wheedling
• catering (to)
• indulging
• quenching
• spoiling
• mollycoddling
• overpraising
• pampering
• coddling
• sweet-talking
• babying
• sating
• sweetening
• adulating
• blandishing
• blarneying
• dulcifying
• soft-soaping

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• infuriating
• enraging
• angering
• inflaming
• antagonizing
• maddening
• aggravating
• crossing
• outraging
• irritating
• provoking
• incensing
• annoying
• exasperating
• getting
• bothering
• rousing
• riling
• burning (up)
• iring
• bugging
• vexing
• nettling
• grating
• ruffling
• roiling
• galling
• enflaming
• putting out
• chafing
• piquing
• rankling
• irking
• harassing
• persecuting
• disturbing
• pestering
• upsetting
• distressing
• harrying
• agitating
• perturbing
• unsettling
• discomforting
• worrying
• insulting
• unhinging
• offending
• peeving
• affronting
• fretting
• slighting