Synonyms for emollient
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR EMOLLIENT
Demulcent and emollient; principally used for poultices and fomentations.
It is emollient and, in decoction, is used as a substitute for flaxseed.
The plant is medicinal, yielding an astringent as well as an emollient.
They eulogised, at the same time, the emollient properties of the dog's-tooth.
Emollient; used to soften and ripen tumours, indurations, &c.
Emollient and stimulant; chiefly used as a pomade for the hair.
It is demulcent and emollient; chiefly used in ointments and cerates.
Emollient; in dry and scaly skin disease, and to allay itching and surfacial irritation; also to promote suppuration, &c.
Uses, &c. Sweet almonds are nutritive, emollient, and demulcent; but frequently disagree with weak stomachs.
It was attempted to relieve this induration by emollient fomentations.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR EMOLLIENT
lenient
adjectivepermissive- allowing
- amiable
- assuaging
- assuasive
- being big
- benign
- benignant
- charitable
- clement
- compassionate
- complaisant
- compliant
- condoning
- easy
- easygoing
- emollient
- excusing
- favoring
- forbearing
- forgiving
- gentle
- going easy on
- good-natured
- humoring
- indulgent
- kind
- kindly
- letting
- live with
- loving
- merciful
- mild
- mollycoddling
- obliging
- pampering
- pardoning
- permitting
- soft
- soft-shell
- softhearted
- sparing
- spoiling
- sympathetic
- tender
- tolerant
- yielding
mild
adjectivegentle, temperate, nonirritating- balmy
- benign
- benignant
- blah
- bland
- breezy
- calm
- choice
- clear
- clement
- cool
- dainty
- delicate
- demulcent
- easy
- emollient
- exquisite
- faint
- fine
- flat
- genial
- ho-hum
- lenient
- lenitive
- light
- lukewarm
- medium
- mellow
- moderate
- mollifying
- nothing
- nothing much
- pabulum
- pacific
- peaceful
- placid
- smooth
- soft
- soothing
- sunny
- tempered
- tepid
- untroubled
- vanilla
- warm
- weak
- wimpy