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pacifying
Synonyms and Antonyms of pacifying
- a pacifying treat of milk and cookies
calming, comforting, dreamy, lulling, narcotic, quieting, relaxing, sedative, soothing, tranquilizing (also tranquillizing)
- the referee adopted a pacifying tone to try to calm everyone down
abrasive, aggravating, annoying, chafing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, inflammatory, irksome, irritating, maddening, nagging, nettlesome, nettling, offensive, provocative, provoking, rankling, riling, vexing
engaging, incensing, infuriating, maddening
antagonistic, antipathetic, hostile, inhospitable, inimical, unfriendly, unsympathetic
aggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assertive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, confrontational, contentious, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent
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