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reassuring adjective encouraging, comforting, cheering, heartening, inspiriting She gave me some reassuring news. Translations reassuring [ˈriːəˈʃʊərɪŋ] ADJ (= pacifying) → tranquilizador; (= encouraging) → alentador to make reassuring noises (fig) → hacer comentarios tranquilizadores it is reassuring to know that → (me)tranquiliza saber que ..., es tranquilizador saber que ... reassuring adj → beruhigend; they had been reassuring about the technical problems → sie waren hinsichtlich der technischen Schwierigkeiten zuversichtlich gewesen, sie hatten sich beruhigend über die technischen Schwierigkeiten geäußert; it is reassuring to know that … → es ist beruhigend zu wissen, dass … How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Poor youth, she would come to the window if she were able, I am sure, to sign that the one little unkindness is long forgotten, to send you a reassuring smile till you and she meet again; and, if you are not to meet again, still to send you a reassuring, trembling smile. He pressed her arm with an air of reassuring proprietorship. Field--Nathaniel Field, author of The Fatal Dowry, and an actor of reputation--in his singular costume, and with a face of perhaps not quite reassuring subtlety, might pass for the original of those Italian, or Italianized, voluptuaries in sin which pleased the fancy of Shakespeare's age. |
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