assuasive

a. 有镇静作用的, 给人与安慰的, 减轻痛苦的

词形变化

assuasives 复数 assuasives more assuasive 比较级 most assuasive 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Anything that soothes.

    古体

    1817, Richard Yates, The Basis of National Welfare, London: F. C. and J. Rivington et al., § 9, p. 112, the bland, the courteous, the truly Christian assuasives of friendly attention

    1908, Mary Virginia Terhune (as Marion Harland), The Housekeeper’s Week, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Chapter 23, p. 312, Nature, as the laity may know it, is a vast pharmacopœia of assuasives and curatives

adj.
  1. 1.

    Mild, soothing.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 1

soothing

近义相关 1

reassuring

词源

From assuage (“to relieve, soothe”) on the model of persuasive.

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