adj
Meaning 1
Moisturizing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
emollient
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɒl.ɪ.ənt/
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General-American: /ɪˈmɑl.jənt/
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adj
Meaning 2
Soothing or mollifying.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
Meaning 3
Something which softens or lubricates the skin; moisturizer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2008, Carol A. Miller, Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults (Fifth edition), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, p. 505, [T]he effectiveness of an emollient is based on its ability to prevent water evaporation, [...]
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noun
Meaning 4
Anything soothing the mind, or that makes something more acceptable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: demulcent, salving, softening
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cream, ointment
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: toiletry, toilet articles
Narrower terms: cold cream, coldcream, face cream, vanishing cream, hand cream, lanolin, nard, spikenard, sunscreen, sunblock, sun blocker
History
Etymology
From French émollient, from Latin emolliēns, present active participle of ēmolliō (“make soft”), from ex- + molliō, from mollis (“soft”). By surface analysis, e- + Latin moll- + -i- + -ent.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: овлажняващ (ovlažnjavašt) — Moisturizing
- Catalan: emol·lient — Moisturizing
- Finnish: kosteuttava — Moisturizing
- German: befeuchtend — Moisturizing
- Italian: emolliente — Moisturizing
- Bulgarian: успокояващ (uspokojavašt) — Soothing; mollifying
- Dutch: verzachtend — Soothing; mollifying
- Finnish: pehmentävä — Soothing; mollifying
- French: lénifiant — Soothing; mollifying
- German: weichmachend — Soothing; mollifying
- German: erweichend — Soothing; mollifying
- German: lindernd — Soothing; mollifying
- Italian: emolliente — Soothing; mollifying
- Arabic: مُرَطِّب (muraṭṭib) — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- Catalan: emol·lient — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- Dutch: zalvend — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- Dutch: huidverzorgend — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- Finnish: pehmentäjä — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- French: émollient — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- German: Hautpflegemittel — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- German: Linderungsmittel — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- German: Emolliens — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- German: Pflegemittel — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- German: Pflegecreme — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- Ancient Greek: μάλαγμα (málagma) — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- Hungarian: bőrápoló krém — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- Indonesian: emolien — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- Italian: emolliente — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- Italian: demulcente — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- Spanish: emoliente — something which softens or lubricates the skin
- Dutch: verzachtend — anything soothing
- Finnish: rauhoittaja — anything soothing
- Finnish: pehmentäjä — anything soothing
- German: Linderung — anything soothing
- Italian: emolliente — anything soothing
- Italian: demulcente — anything soothing