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# soothingly

«soothingly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a calm, gentle way that makes someone feel less upset…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (soothingly)

### meaning for a pupil

In a calm, gentle way that makes someone feel less upset, worried or in pain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothingly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A feelings word in stories and real life: parents speak soothingly to a crying baby, a nurse soothingly tells a child it will be alright. In The Wind in the Willows Rat talks soothingly to Mole when he is frightened or homesick. It also describes sounds and touches: water lapped soothingly, music played soothingly.

### examples

- Mum spoke soothingly to the crying baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothingly/#x1)
- «There, there,» said Ratty soothingly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothingly/#x2)
- The river murmured soothingly in the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothingly/#x3)
- The vet stroked the frightened dog soothingly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothingly/#x4)
- The cream felt soothingly cool on my sunburn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothingly/#x5)
- She hummed soothingly until he fell asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothingly/#x6)
- “It is not a great lie,” said Fionn soothingly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothingly/#x7)

### note

Adverb from «soothing», from the verb «soothe» (soothe, soothed). Spelling: sooth-ing-ly, keep the -th-. Opposite: harshly, roughly.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «soothingly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothingly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.