calming

1. 1.

   the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)

   Synonymsappeasement

   Broadersocial control

   Narrowerpacificationplacation

Other forms of calming

plural

calmings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about calming

What does calming mean?

calming means "the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)".

How many syllables are in calming?

calming has 2 syllables: cal-ming. The stress falls on "cal". In IPA it is /ˈkɑmɪŋ/.

What is another word for calming?

Close synonyms include appeasement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calming a common word?

calming is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.