endearing (to)

verb

Definition of endearing (to)next
present participle of endear (to)
as in ingratiating

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for endearing (to)
  1. ingratiating
  2. comforting
  3. placating
  4. appeasing
  5. consoling
  6. disarming
  7. calming
  8. pacifying
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  • Many subscribers to the old model had become attached to its warm, enthusiastically agreeable tone and complained at the loss of their ingratiating robotic companion.
    — Cody Turner, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
  • But the meetings were also about Döpfner ingratiating himself to the right-of-center political leaders that make up some of the UK broadsheet’s audience (and source base).
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 30 Mar. 2026
Definition of ingratiating
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  • This comforting one-pan dinner should always hold a place in your seasonal dinner rotation.
    — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 23 July 2026
  • Those are millions of hours physicians can spend explaining a cancer diagnosis, comforting anxious families, and helping patients make life-changing decisions.
    — Robert Reiss, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of comforting
Verb
  • The note is there when Sugar gets back, placating his suspicions (for now) and deflating his ego.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 July 2026
  • Putin has struggled to manage fighting Kyiv on the one hand and placating domestic constituencies on the other.
    — Anna Nemtsova, Time, 23 May 2026
Definition of placating
Verb
  • Interest—from both visitors and islanders—is gently shifting away from polishing playboy yachts or appeasing the decadent whims of retirees, to something, well, more real.
    — Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026
  • But for most Republican members of Congress, appeasing Trump remains key to primary and electoral success.
    — SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, The Conversation, 17 July 2026
Definition of appeasing
Verb
  • Instead of consoling Messi, his Argentine teammates were embroiled in a brawl.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • Embolo left the pitch appearing to cry, as teammates and coaches tried consoling him.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 12 July 2026
Definition of consoling
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  • Deference and sweet-talk have been Europe’s disarming response.
    — Mark Webber, Time, 24 July 2026
  • Yet the franchise, for all its mayhem, didn’t run on belligerence, or at least channelled its aggression in a disarming way.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Definition of disarming
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  • The British rose full body massage infuses a calming sense of place with local flora, and a range of facial treatments is available as well.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • The Olympic gymnast, 29, headlined day two of the Faces of Fitness festival in Chicago on Sunday, July 26, delivering a presentation on mental health and leading attendees in calming breathing exercises.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026
Definition of calming
Verb
  • Such tactics have never succeeded in pacifying Iranian society for long.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • That transformed the industry by giving it a clear American base — and by pacifying agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission that had been, under Biden, openly hostile.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Definition of pacifying
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“Endearing (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endearing%20%28to%29. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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