calming

• allaying
• alleviating
• alleviation
• analgesic
• anesthetic
• anodyne
• antianxiety
• antidepressant
• antidepression
• antistress
• appeasement
• appeasing
• assuagement
• assuaging
• ataractic
• becalming
• collecting
• comfort
• comforting
• composing
• conciliating
• containing
• controlling
• deadening
• decrease
• depressant
• diminishment
• dreamy
• ease
• easing
• holding back
• hushing
• hypnotic
• laying
• lullabying
• lulling
• mitigating
• mitigation
• moderation
• mollification
• mollifying
• narcotic
• narcotizing
• numbing
• opiate
• pacifying
• placating
• quelling
• quietening
• quieting
• rallying
• re-collecting
• recovering
• relaxing
• release
• relief
• relieving
• restraining
• salving
• sedating
• sedative
• settling
• solacing
• soothing
• stilling
• stupefying
• tranquilizing
• tranquillizing

• ache
• aggravating
• agitating
• agony
• anguish
• annoying
• arousing
• bothersome
• discomfort
• discomposing
• disquieting
• disturbing
• energizing
• exasperating
• exciting
• fomenting
• frustrating
• galling
• grating
• harassing
• heightening
• inciting
• intensifying
• invigorating
• irksome
• irritating
• maddening
• misery
• nettlesome
• pain
• painful
• pang
• perturbing
• prick
• rousing
• smart
• stimulant
• stimulating
• sting
• stitch
• stressful
• suffering
• throe
• tingle
• tiresome
• torment
• torture
• troublesome
• troubling
• trying
• twinge
• unrest
• unsettling
• upsetting
• vexatious
• vexing
• working up
• worrisome

• verb
  1. To make calm.
  2. To become calm.

• The calming effect of the ocean waves helped her relax after a long day.
• He found the soft music to be incredibly calming during stressful moments.
• The therapist recommended a calming routine before bedtime to improve sleep.
• The calming aroma of lavender can help reduce anxiety and stress.
• Her presence had a calming influence on the nervous children before the performance.

darling

• admirable
• admired
• admirer
• adorable
• adored
• affable
• agreeable
• alluring
• amiable
• amour
• amusing
• angel
• appealing
• appreciated
• attractive
• baby
• beau
• beautiful
• beloved
• blessed
• blest
• blissful
• boy
• boyfriend
• bride
• calming
• captivating
• charming
• cheerful
• cheery
• cherished
• comfortable
• comforting
• congenial
• cordial
• crush
• cup of tea
• date
• dear
• dear one
• dearest
• dearie
• delectable
• delicious
• delightful
• delightsome
• desirable
• disarming
• diverting
• doll
• dreamy
• dulcet
• ecstatic
• elating
• embraceable
• enchanting
• endearing
• engaging
• enjoyable
• entertaining
• entrancing
• enviable
• escort
• esteemed
• euphoric
• exhilarating
• fair-haired
• fair-haired boy
• fascinating
• fave
• favored
• favorite
• felicific
• felicitous
• fellow
• fetching
• flame
• fond
• friend
• friendly
• gal
• gallant
• genial
• girl
• girlfriend
• glad
• good
• good-natured
• good-tempered
• goodly
• gracious
• grateful
• gratifying
• groom
• happy
• heartthrob
• heavenly
• hon
• honey
• honeybunch
• hospitable
• husband
• inamorata
• intended
• intoxicating
• inviting
• jewel
• jolly
• joyous
• kind
• kindly
• kissable
• ladylove
• lass
• light of my life
• likable
• likeable
• lovable
• love
• loveable
• loved
• lovely
• lover
• lovesome
• luscious
• man
• minion
• mistress
• nice
• nirvanic
• one and only
• palatable
• paramour
• personable
• pet
• pleasant
• pleasing
• pleasurable
• precious
• preference
• preferred
• pretty
• prize
• prized
• rapturous
• recreative
• relishable
• relished
• reputable
• respectable
• revered
• satisfying
• savory
• savoury
• significant other
• soothing
• special
• speed
• squeeze
• steady
• sugar
• suitor
• swain
• sweet
• sweetheart
• sweetie
• sweetie pie
• tasty
• tempting
• tootsie
• treasure
• treasured
• truelove
• welcome
• well-disposed
• white-headed
• wife
• winning
• winsome
• wooer

deadening

• abating
• alleviating
• analgesic
• anesthetic
• anodyne
• antianxiety
• antidepressant
• antidepression
• antistress
• balmy
• benumbing
• blunting
• burning out
• calming
• castrating
• cauterizing
• comforting
• dampening
• damping
• daunting
• debilitating
• decreasing
• dehydrating
• demoralizing
• depressant
• desiccating
• devitalizing
• diminishing
• discouraging
• disheartening
• dispiriting
• doing in
• dozy
• draining
• dreamy
• drowsy
• dull
• dulling
• dwindling
• easing
• enervating
• enfeebling
• exhausting
• fatiguing
• gelding
• hypnotic
• lessening
• lightening
• lobotomizing
• lowering
• lulling
• mesmerizing
• moderating
• muffling
• muting
• narcotic
• nodding
• numbing
• opiate
• pacifying
• petrifying
• quietening
• quieting
• receding
• reducing
• relaxing
• sapping
• sedative
• slumberous
• snoozy
• somnifacient
• somniferous
• somnific
• somnolent
• somnorific
• soothing
• soporiferous
• soporific
• stupefacient
• stupefactive
• stupefying
• subduing
• subsiding
• tranquilizing
• tranquillizing
• undermining
• waning
• weakening
• wearing
• wearing out

ease

• abandon
• abandonment
• abate
• abbreviate
• abet
• abridge
• accelerate
• adroitness
• advance
• affability
• affluence
• aid
• allay
• alleviate
• alleviation
• ameliorate
• amend
• anesthetize
• aplomb
• appease
• appeasement
• ardor
• assist
• assuage
• assuagement
• ataraxia
• attend to
• bed of roses
• better
• blank check
• breeze
• calm
• calming
• calmness
• carelessness
• carte blanche
• casualness
• catnapping
• cheer
• cinch
• clear the way
• cleverness
• clip
• collapse
• comfort
• composure
• compress
• condense
• constrict
• content
• contentment
• contract
• correct
• crop
• cure
• curtail
• cut
• cut back
• cut down
• de-escalate
• decline
• decompression
• decrease
• deflate
• dent
• deplete
• detach
• dexterity
• diminish
• diminishment
• disburden
• disengage
• disentangle
• dispatch
• dock
• doctor
• dolce far niente
• downscale
• downsize
• dozing
• drop
• duck soup
• dwindle
• easiness
• easygoingness
• ebb
• edge
• efficiency
• effortlessness
• emend
• enhance
• enrich
• enthusiasm
• evaporate
• excess
• excessiveness
• expedite
• expertise
• expertness
• extricate
• exuberance
• facilitate
• fall
• fall away
• familiarity
• fervor
• fix
• flag
• flexibility
• fluency
• forward
• free
• free hand
• further
• give out
• gratification
• grease
• handle
• happiness
• hasten
• heal
• heedlessness
• help
• hurry
• idleness
• immoderacy
• improve
• impulsiveness
• impulsivity
• inactivity
• inch
• incontinence
• indiscretion
• induce
• indulgence
• inertia
• inertness
• informality
• insert
• insouciance
• intemperance
• join
• knack
• knock down
• lazing
• leisure
• lessen
• let up
• let up on
• liberty
• licentiousness
• lift
• lighten
• lightheartedness
• loose
• loosen
• lower
• luxury
• make easier
• maneuver
• meliorate
• mend
• minimize
• mitigate
• mitigation
• moderate
• moderation
• modify
• modulate
• mollification
• mollify
• napping
• naturalness
• nick
• nonchalance
• nurse
• offhandedness
• open the door
• pacify
• pall
• palliate
• pare
• peace
• peace of mind
• peacefulness
• perfect
• permissiveness
• phase down
• placidity
• poise
• promote
• prosperity
• prune
• pushover
• qualify
• quicken
• quickness
• quiet
• quietness
• quietude
• readiness
• recede
• recklessness
• rectify
• reduce
• refine
• reform
• relax
• relaxation
• relaxedness
• release
• relent
• relief
• relieve
• remedy
• remit
• remove
• repair
• repose
• requiescence
• respite
• rest
• restfulness
• resting
• retrench
• right
• run interference for
• rush
• salving
• satisfaction
• security
• sereneness
• serenity
• set right
• setup
• shorten
• shrink
• silence
• simplicity
• simplify
• sink
• skillfulness
• slack
• slacken
• slash
• sleep
• slide
• slip
• slumber
• slumbering
• smooth
• smooth sailing
• smoothness
• snap
• snoozing
• soften
• soothe
• soothing
• speed
• speed up
• spirit
• spontaneity
• spontaneousness
• squeeze
• steer
• still
• stillness
• streamline
• subside
• supinity
• taper
• taper off
• temper
• thoughtlessness
• tranquility
• tranquilize
• tranquillity
• tranquilness
• trim
• truncate
• unaffectedness
• unbind
• unclog
• unconstraint
• undo
• unfasten
• uninhibitedness
• unreservedness
• unrestraint
• unself-consciousness
• untangle
• untie
• untighten
• vanish
• wane
• wantonness
• warmth
• weaken
• whittle
• wildness
• zeal
• zealotry
• zealousness

easing

• abatement
• abating
• abbreviating
• abetting
• abridging
• acceding
• accelerating
• accommodation
• adjustment
• advancing
• aiding
• allaying
• alleviating
• alleviation
• ameliorating
• amending
• amends
• assisting
• assuagement
• assuaging
• automated
• automatic
• bettering
• blunting
• calming
• clipping
• collapsing
• compressing
• compromise
• computerized
• concession
• conciliation
• condensing
• consolatory
• consoling
• constricting
• contracting
• correcting
• cropping
• curing
• curtailing
• cutting
• cutting back
• cutting down
• de-escalating
• declining
• decreasing
• deflating
• denting
• depleting
• detaching
• diminishing
• disentangling
• docking
• downscaling
• downsizing
• dropping
• dwindling
• ebbing
• emending
• enhancing
• enriching
• evaporating
• expediting
• facilitating
• falling
• falling away
• fixing
• flagging
• forwarding
• freeing
• furthering
• giving out
• grant
• greasing
• hastening
• healing
• helping
• hurrying
• improving
• knocking down
• laborsaving
• lessening
• letting up
• lightening
• loosening
• lowering
• lulling
• mechanical
• meliorating
• mending
• minimizing
• mitigating
• mitigation
• moderating
• moderation
• modifying
• modulating
• mollification
• mollifying
• motorized
• nicking
• nonmanual
• pacifying
• palliating
• palliative
• palling
• paring
• peace offering
• perfecting
• phasing down
• placation
• promoting
• propitiation
• pruning
• qualifying
• quelling
• quenching
• quickening
• quieting
• reassuring
• receding
• reconciliation
• rectifying
• reducing
• refining
• reforming
• relaxing
• relenting
• relieving
• remedying
• remitting
• repairing
• reparation
• restoration
• retrenching
• robotic
• rushing
• self-acting
• self-operating
• self-regulating
• semiautomatic
• settlement
• shortening
• shrinking
• simplifying
• sinking
• slackening
• slacking
• slashing
• smoothing
• softening
• solace
• soothing
• speeding
• streamlining
• subsiding
• tapering
• tapering off
• tempering
• time-saving
• tranquilization
• tranquilizing
• trimming
• truncating
• unbinding
• unclogging
• undoing
• unfastening
• untangling
• untieing
• untying
• vanishing
• waning
• warming
• weakening
• whittling

elating

• advantageous
• affable
• agreeable
• alluring
• amiable
• amusing
• arousing
• attractive
• beneficial
• blessed
• blest
• blissful
• bright
• calming
• charming
• cheerful
• cheering
• cheery
• comfortable
• comforting
• commoving
• conducive
• congenial
• contenting
• convenient
• darling
• delectable
• delicious
• delightful
• delighting
• delightsome
• desirable
• diverting
• dreamy
• dulcet
• ecstatic
• elevating
• enchanting
• encouraging
• enjoyable
• enlivening
• enrapturing
• entertaining
• enviable
• euphoric
• exciting
• exhilarating
• expeditious
• fair
• fascinating
• favorable
• felicific
• felicitous
• fine
• fit
• flattering
• fortifying
• fortunate
• genial
• glad
• gladdening
• golden
• good
• good-natured
• goodly
• gracious
• grateful
• gratifying
• halcyon
• happy
• heartening
• heavenly
• helpful
• hospitable
• inspiring
• inspiriting
• intoxicating
• inviting
• jolly
• joyous
• kindly
• likely
• lucky
• luscious
• nice
• nirvanic
• opportune
• palatable
• personable
• pleasant
• pleasing
• pleasurable
• pretty
• probable
• promiseful
• propitious
• providential
• rapturous
• reasonable
• reassuring
• recreative
• rejoicing
• relishable
• roseate
• rosy
• rousing
• satisfying
• savory
• savoury
• soothing
• stimulating
• stirring
• suitable
• sunny
• sweet
• tasty
• tempting
• timely
• transporting
• uplifting
• warming
• welcome
• well-timed

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