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emollient
adjective as in soothing
noun as in lotion
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Try adding a richly emollient body cream to your daily routine for long-lasting hydration that will leave skin hydrated and fabulous, not dried out, which can enhance fine lines and wrinkles.
Oatmeal is an emollient, which means that it holds moisture against the skin.
Rubenstein listened and as an emollient agreed to an in-house investigation.
No soft hand of woman smoothed his pillow or relieved the agony of pain and suffering by the timely opiate or emollient.
Ben rushed, and had an emollient; spouted again and was corked; again, and received a neat red-waxen stopper.
The bowels have been kept open from the 19th, by the occasional use of emollient injections.
It was attempted to relieve this induration by emollient fomentations.
He must have seen that its effect would only be to irritate a spirit needing an emollient.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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