calming

Noun

Meaning

of Calm

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

appeasement still relief cooling peaceful quiet calm ambient comfort settling composing therapeutic temper appease narcotic
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Antonyms

making increasing restless frightful moving bad
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Hypernyms

social control

Hyponyms

conciliation pacification propitiation mollification placation

Phrases with the word

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Examples

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. Henri Matisse

There's a very wild side to me, but it's calming down. Alyson Hannigan

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island. Gerry Adams

Pressure is calming to the nervous system. Temple Grandin

The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief. Gregory Maguire

I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing. Joyce DiDonato

Close letter words and terms

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