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adjective

as in appeased

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verb

past tense of mollify
1
as in comforted
to lessen the anger or agitation of an apology would probably mollify your friend

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2
as in relieved
to make more bearable or less severe a friendly gesture that did a lot to mollify their suspicions about the new neighbor

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Recent Examples of mollified
Adjective
Sometimes, a particular human trait can moderate whether a person is going to be antagonistic toward AI artwork or more mollified. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Verb
But not everyone was mollified by the announcement. — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 24 Apr. 2026 But the boy wouldn't be mollified. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026 While protesters may be frightened and grieving after last month's bloodbath, they're not mollified. — Arkansas Online, 10 Feb. 2026 Choi’s suggestions haven’t mollified Young Poong and MBK Partners. — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 20 Jan. 2025 Netanyahu has mollified his overexuberant colleagues on the right mostly by acquiescing to their demands in the domestic sphere. — Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 26 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mollified
  1. appeased
  2. relieved
  3. elated
  4. alleviated
  5. ecstatic
  6. soothed
  7. enraptured
  8. helped
Adjective
  • Neither Cola’s guilt over her actions nor her reasons for doing them appeased Carrie.
    — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Some residents, however, aren’t appeased.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2026
Definition of appeased
Verb
  • Viewers will be relieved to know that the last few minutes — in which Schulman delivers us a shocking act of violence — are fiction.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Jax was relieved by Steven Matz (6-6), who pitched a scoreless inning.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of relieved
Adjective
  • But there was so much the offense did well that both men had to be elated about the offense’s potential, too.
    — Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Everyone seemed pretty elated for coming out of a festival that hadn’t toppled the patriarchy, but had proven again that, in 2026, women rule music in virtually every qualifiable way.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of elated
Verb
  • There are no guarantees that polling’s troubles – and persistent popular skepticism about the dependability of election polls – will be alleviated anytime soon.
    — W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Woman after woman told USA TODAY that physicians never talked to their mothers who had become seriously ill or died about vaginal estrogen, something that would have alleviated their painful UTIs – and ultimately prevented them in the first place.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of alleviated
Adjective
  • There will be loud guitars, deep bass, some ecstatic rhythms and, yes, some silver tears will make an appearance!
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026
  • At first, Gonsolin was ecstatic to step on the mound, and then, his competitive spirit began to sprout into confidence.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of ecstatic
Verb
  • History was repeating, ancient bonds once damaged in war, silenced, and soothed in the quiet moments after.
    — Nicky Robertson, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Venus ascendant, sky blackened with the new moon, and acool breeze soothed you.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of soothed
Adjective
  • Audiences, however, have remained enraptured by its enduring story, in which one man’s public (and private) persona crumbles as one woman’s own star rises.
    — Nathan Smith, Air Mail, 18 July 2026
  • But ate every single chicken wing, every single Waffle House, every single nugget from Buc-ee's, and were utterly enraptured.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
Definition of enraptured
Verb
  • There’s some evidence and many anecdotes that kratom leaf products have helped people wean themselves off of opioids or other illicit drugs.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026
  • These, then collided with boron nuclei and helped drive the fusion reaction rate beyond 100 million reactions per second.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
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