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assuasive

assuasive adjective: mild, soothing.

Adjective

assuasive (comparative more assuasive, superlative most assuasive)

  1. Mild, soothing.
    • If in the Breast tumultuous Joys arise,
      Musick her soft, assuasive Voice applies;
      Or when the Soul is press’d with Cares
      Exalts her in enlivening Airs.1713, Alexander Pope, Ode for Musick, London: Bernard Lintott, pages 2–3
    • “[…] Perhaps,” said Bounderby, starting with all his might at his so quiet and assuasive father-in-law, “you know where your daughter is at the present time?”1854, Charles Dickens, “Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 282,”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC

Noun

assuasive (plural assuasives)

  1. (archaic) Anything that soothes.
    • […] the heat of the sun operates in all its vigour, without an assuasive to mitigate its force.1808, Thomas Coke, chapter 1, in A History of the West Indies, volume 1, Liverpool, page 65
    • the bland, the courteous, the truly Christian assuasives of friendly attention1817, Richard Yates, The Basis of National Welfare, London: F. C. and J. Rivington et al., § 9, p. 112

Examples of assuasive in a sentence

  • The medicine, whatever it might be, had the merit, rare in doctor’s stuff, of being pleasant to take, assuasive of thirst, and imbued with a hardly perceptible fragrance,1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 12, in Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret, Boston: James R. Osgood, published 1883, page 152:
  • This wasn’t smart but the alcohol had an assuasive effect.1965, Robert Wilder, chapter 1, in Fruit of the Poppy,, New York: Putnam, page 16:

Forms of assuasive

Adjective
comparativemore assuasive
superlativemost assuasive
Noun
pluralassuasives

Origin of assuasive

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

Words formed from assuasive

Questions about assuasive

What does assuasive mean?
Assuasive means mild, soothing.
How do you use assuasive in a sentence?
The medicine, whatever it might be, had the merit, rare in doctor’s stuff, of being pleasant to take, assuasive of thirst, and imbued with a hardly perceptible fragrance,
What part of speech is assuasive?
Assuasive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near assuasive in the dictionary

  1. assuageth
  2. assuaging
  3. assuagingly
  4. assuagings
  5. Assuan
  6. assuasive
  7. assuasively
  8. assuasives
  9. assubjugate
  10. assubjugated
  11. assubjugates

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