STARTLING Antonyms

• providing freedom from worry

• affording comfort or solace

• considered likely or probable to happen or arrive

• well known or easily recognized

• within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange

• a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support

• a friend who is frequently in the company of another

• a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard

• (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly

• having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship

• capable of being foretold

• restoring confidence and relieving anxiety

• affording physical relief

• freeing from fear and anxiety

• marked by no noteworthy or significant events

• not surprised or expressing surprise

• not causing surprise