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calming
CIDE DICTIONARY
calming, adj.
- tending to soothe or calm or tranquilize. [WordNet 1.5]
- freeing from fear and anxiety. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
calming
United Nations troops, abatement, allayment, alleviation, appeasement, appeasing, assuagement, blunting, conciliation, cradling, damping, deadening, demulsion, detente, diminution, dreamy, drowsy, dulcification, dulling, easing, easing of relations, falling-off, gentling, hushing, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, mediation, mitigation, modulation, mollification, mollifying, pacification, pacifying, palliation, peace-keeping force, peacemaking, peacemongering, placability, placation, propitiation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relaxation of tension, remission, restful, rocking, slackening, softening, soothful, soothing, stilling, subduement, tempering, tranquilization, tranquilizingFor further exploring for "calming" in Webster Dictionary Online