UNSOFTENING Antonyms

• providing freedom from worry

• affording comfort or solace

• the process of becoming softer

• having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin

• affording physical relief

• freeing from fear and anxiety

• soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe

• having or showing a kindly or tender nature

• quiet and soothing

• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

• easily handled or managed

• having little impact

• marked by moderate steepness

• cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

• give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility

• stroke soothingly

• To cause (a consonant) to undergo lenition.

• To undergo lenition.

• cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

• make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else

• make less rigid or softer

• give in, as to influence or pressure

• make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer