REASSURING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reassuring mean? 

• REASSURING (adjective)
  The adjective REASSURING has 1 sense:

1. restoring confidence and relieving anxiety

  Familiarity information: REASSURING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REASSURING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restoring confidence and relieving anxiety

Context example:

a very reassuring remark

Similar:

assuasive; soothing (freeing from fear and anxiety)

assuring (giving confidence)

comforting; consolatory; consoling (affording comfort or solace)

Also:

encouraging (giving courage or confidence or hope)

Attribute:

reassurance (the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence)

Antonym:

unreassuring (not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety)

 Context examples 

She turned and touched his neck with her muzzle in a reassuring way, then regarded the camp again.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"That's all right," was the reassuring answer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I felt Holmes’s hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake, as if to say that the situation was within his powers, and that he was easy in his mind.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

" I asked. His answer was not reassuring: "I know you well enough; you are the old fool Van Helsing.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was reassuring, on such a night, to be told that some of the inn-servants had agreed together to sit up until morning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A commonplace, practical reply, out of the train of his own disturbed ideas, was, I was sure, the best and most reassuring for him in this frame of mind.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the current analysis, an important and reassuring finding was that peanut consumption did not affect the duration of breastfeeding, thus countering concerns that introduction of solid foods before six months of age could reduce breastfeeding duration.

(Peanut allergy prevention strategy is nutritionally safe, NIH)

He stood so still that a squirrel, busy with its harvesting, ran down a pine close beside him, saw him suddenly and skipped back, scolding so shrilly that Beth looked up, espied the wistful face behind the birches, and beckoned with a reassuring smile.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That my smattering of knowledge should enable me to short-cut my way to truth is most reassuring.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At such times White Fang leaned in close against the master's legs and received reassuring pats on the head.

(White Fang, by Jack London)