salve

The word “salve” has 1 syllable: salve

It's pronounced as /sælv/


What is synonym and antonym for salve?

In the thesaurus, “salve” has 64 synonyms and 28 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for salve along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for salve

  • aid
  • allay
  • alleviate
  • ally
  • appease
  • assuage
  • balm
  • becalm
  • calm
  • calm down
  • cataplasm
  • cerate
  • compose
  • conciliate
  • cool off
  • counterirritant
  • cream
  • cure
  • dressing
  • ease
  • embrocation
  • emolient
  • heal
  • help
  • hush
  • lay
  • liniment
  • lotion
  • lubricant
  • lull
  • lullaby
  • medication
  • medicine
  • mitigate
  • mollify
  • narcotize
  • ointment
  • pacify
  • placate
  • plaster
  • poultice
  • pour oil on
  • quell
  • quiet
  • quieten
  • relax
  • relieve
  • remedy
  • sedate
  • settle
  • smooth down
  • soften
  • solace
  • soothe
  • still
  • stupefy
  • take the edge off
  • take the sting out of
  • tranquilize
  • tranquillize
  • unburden
  • unction
  • unguent
  • untrouble

Antonyms for salve

  • aggravate
  • agitate
  • arouse
  • blockage
  • discompose
  • disease
  • disquiet
  • disturb
  • excite
  • foment
  • harm
  • heighten
  • hindrance
  • hurt
  • incite
  • injure
  • injury
  • intensify
  • irritate
  • move
  • obstruction
  • perturb
  • rouse
  • trouble
  • upset
  • vex
  • work up
  • worry

Meanings of salve

  • noun
    1. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
    2. Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.
  • verb
    1. To calm or assuage.
    2. To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
    3. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
    4. To salvage.
    5. To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
    6. To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
    7. To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
    8. To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
  • interjection
    1. Hail; a greeting.

Example Sentences

  • She applied a soothing salve to her sunburned skin.
  • His kind words acted as a salve to her wounded pride.
  • The herbal salve helped alleviate the pain in his sore muscles.
  • A sincere apology can often serve as a salve to heal strained relationships.
  • The therapist's empathetic listening was a gentle salve to her emotional wounds.

On this page you'll find 92 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to salve, such as: aggravate, agitate, aid, allay, alleviate, ally, appease.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

narcotize

  • allay
  • alleviate
  • analgize
  • anesthetize
  • appease
  • assuage
  • becalm
  • benumb
  • blunt
  • calm
  • compose
  • conciliate
  • deaden
  • desensitize
  • dope
  • dope up
  • dose
  • dose up
  • ease
  • fix
  • hit
  • hush
  • knock out
  • lay
  • lull
  • lullaby
  • medicate
  • mitigate
  • mollify
  • numb
  • opiate
  • pacify
  • physic
  • placate
  • poison
  • quell
  • quiet
  • quieten
  • relax
  • relieve
  • salve
  • sedate
  • settle
  • solace
  • soothe
  • still
  • stupefy
  • tranquilize
  • tranquillize
  • treat

jelly

  • balm
  • cake
  • clot
  • clump
  • coagulate
  • concrete
  • condense
  • congeal
  • curd
  • curdle
  • extract
  • fix
  • freeze
  • gel
  • gelate
  • gelatin
  • gelatinize
  • gum
  • harden
  • indurate
  • jell
  • marmalade
  • ointment
  • pectin
  • preserves
  • pulp
  • salve
  • set
  • solidify
  • stiffen
  • sweet condiment
  • thicken
  • unction

palliative

  • abatement
  • absolution
  • account
  • acquittal
  • advocacy
  • aid
  • alky
  • allayment
  • alleviating
  • alleviation
  • amelioration
  • amendatory
  • anesthetic
  • anodyne
  • answer
  • antidotal
  • antidote
  • apologia
  • apology
  • appeasement
  • approval
  • argument
  • assistance
  • assuagement
  • balm
  • balsamic
  • basis
  • beneficial
  • benign
  • booze
  • break
  • breather
  • calming
  • canned heat
  • cheer
  • cocktail
  • comfort
  • comforting
  • confirmation
  • consolation
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • contentment
  • cop-out
  • corrective
  • cosmetic
  • counteracting
  • cream
  • curative
  • cure
  • cure-all
  • defense
  • deliverance
  • demulcent
  • diminished responsibility
  • disciplinary
  • diversion
  • drink
  • ease
  • easement
  • easing
  • elixir
  • embrocation
  • emendatory
  • ethanol
  • exculpation
  • exoneration
  • explanation
  • extenuation
  • extenuative
  • extrication
  • firewater
  • fix
  • good point
  • grounds
  • hand
  • handout
  • happiness
  • hard stuff
  • harmless
  • healing
  • healthful
  • healthy
  • help
  • helpful
  • hootch
  • hypnotic
  • idea
  • innocuous
  • inoffensive
  • intoxicant
  • lenitive
  • letup
  • lift
  • lightening
  • liniment
  • liquor
  • maintenance
  • medicinal
  • medicine
  • methanol
  • mitigation
  • mollification
  • mollifying
  • moonshine
  • narcotic
  • nonfatal
  • nonlethal
  • nonpoisonous
  • nontoxic
  • nonvenomous
  • ointment
  • opiate
  • pacifier
  • pacifying
  • palliation
  • panacea
  • partial excuse
  • penal
  • plea
  • point of character
  • preparation
  • pretext
  • punitive
  • qualification
  • quick fix
  • rationale
  • rationalization
  • reassuring
  • rebuttal
  • rectifier
  • red-eye
  • reformatory
  • refreshment
  • rehabilitative
  • relaxing
  • release
  • relief
  • relieving
  • remedial
  • remedy
  • remedying
  • remission
  • reply
  • reprieve
  • respite
  • response
  • rest
  • restfulness
  • restorative
  • rotgut
  • salubrious
  • salutary
  • salve
  • salving
  • sanctification
  • satisfaction
  • sauce
  • security blanket
  • sedative
  • smoke
  • softening
  • solace
  • solution
  • song and dance
  • soother
  • soporific
  • spirits
  • story
  • succor
  • support
  • sustenance
  • therapeutic
  • therapy
  • tipple
  • toddy
  • tranquilizer
  • tranquilizing
  • tranquillizer
  • unguent
  • validation
  • vindication
  • warming
  • warrant
  • wash
  • whatfor
  • wherefore
  • whitewashing
  • whole idea
  • wholesome
  • why and wherefore

balm

  • alleviation
  • analgesic
  • anodyne
  • application
  • aroma
  • assuagement
  • attar
  • balsam
  • bouquet
  • cerate
  • comfort
  • compound
  • consolation
  • cream
  • curative
  • cure
  • demulcent
  • dressing
  • easement
  • embrocation
  • emollient
  • essence
  • formula
  • fragrance
  • fragrancy
  • incense
  • lotion
  • medicine
  • mitigation
  • odor
  • ointment
  • otto
  • palliative
  • perfume
  • potion
  • poultice
  • preparation
  • prescription
  • redolence
  • refreshment
  • relief
  • remedy
  • restorative
  • salve
  • scent
  • solace
  • soother
  • soothing agent
  • spice
  • unction
  • unguent

calm

  • affable
  • allay
  • alleviate
  • aloof
  • amiable
  • amicable
  • appease
  • arcadian
  • assuage
  • assured
  • at a standstill
  • at peace
  • balm
  • balmy
  • becalm
  • bland
  • bovine
  • breathless
  • breezeless
  • breezy
  • bucolic
  • calmness
  • carefree
  • casualness
  • centered
  • civil
  • clear
  • clement
  • cloudless
  • collect
  • collected
  • comfort
  • comity
  • compose
  • composed
  • conciliate
  • concord
  • confident
  • consolation
  • contain
  • content
  • contentment
  • control
  • cool
  • cool as cucumber
  • cool it
  • cool out
  • cool-headed
  • coolheaded
  • dead
  • detached
  • devil-may-care
  • disciplined
  • disinterested
  • dispassion
  • dispassionate
  • doldrums
  • dull
  • ease
  • easygoing
  • easygoingness
  • equable
  • equal
  • even
  • even-keeled
  • fair
  • gentle
  • halcyon
  • happy-go-lucky
  • harmonious
  • harmony
  • heartsease
  • hold back
  • hush
  • hushed
  • impassive
  • impassivity
  • imperturbable
  • imperturbation
  • in order
  • inactive
  • indifferent
  • informality
  • inscrutable
  • kind
  • laid-back
  • laid-backness
  • lay
  • lay back
  • level
  • levelheaded
  • limpid
  • listless
  • loosey-goosey
  • low
  • low-key
  • lown
  • lull
  • lullaby
  • mellow
  • mild
  • mildness
  • mitigate
  • moderate
  • mollify
  • motionless
  • muffled
  • mute
  • muted
  • narcotize
  • nerveless
  • neutral
  • noiseless
  • nonchalant
  • pacific
  • pacify
  • pastoral
  • patience
  • patient
  • pause
  • peace
  • peace of mind
  • peaceful
  • peacefulness
  • phlegmatic
  • placate
  • placid
  • placidity
  • pleased
  • poised
  • possessed
  • quell
  • quiescent
  • quiet
  • quieted
  • quieten
  • quietness
  • quietude
  • rainless
  • rally
  • re-collect
  • recollected
  • recover
  • relax
  • relaxed
  • relaxedness
  • relief
  • relieve
  • relieved
  • repose
  • reposeful
  • reposing
  • respite
  • rest
  • restful
  • restfulness
  • restrain
  • restraint
  • rural
  • salve
  • satisfied
  • sedate
  • self-assured
  • self-composed
  • self-contained
  • self-controlled
  • self-possessed
  • serene
  • sereneness
  • serenity
  • settle
  • silence
  • silent
  • simmer down
  • slow
  • smooth
  • sober
  • soft
  • soft pedal
  • solace
  • soothe
  • soothing
  • soothingness
  • soundless
  • speechless
  • steady
  • still
  • stillness
  • stilly
  • stoicism
  • stolid
  • stormless
  • stroke
  • stupefy
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • take it easy
  • take the edge off
  • temperate
  • together
  • tranquil
  • tranquility
  • tranquilize
  • tranquilized
  • tranquillity
  • tranquillize
  • tranquillized
  • ultraquiet
  • unconcerned
  • undisturbed
  • unemotional
  • unexcitable
  • unexcited
  • unflappable
  • unimpressed
  • unmoved
  • unperturbed
  • unruffled
  • unshakable
  • unshaken
  • untroubled
  • unworried
  • waveless
  • well-adjusted
  • well-balanced
  • windless
  • wordless

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