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REASSURING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Restoring confidence and relieving anxiety
Example:
a very reassuring remark
Classified under:
Similar:
assuasive; soothing (freeing from fear and anxiety)
assuring (giving confidence)
comforting; consolatory; consoling (affording comfort or solace)
Also:
encouraging (giving courage or confidence or hope)
Attribute:
reassurance (the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence)
Antonym:
unreassuring (not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb reassure
Context examples:
A more reassuring introduction for a new governess could scarcely be conceived; there was no grandeur to overwhelm, no stateliness to embarrass; and then, as I entered, the old lady got up and promptly and kindly came forward to meet me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Martin roused himself and sat up and began to eat, between spoonfuls reassuring Maria that he had not been talking in his sleep and that he did not have any fever.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
