reassuring

reassuring
adj.
VERBS
be
find sth
ADVERB
extremely, fairly, very, etc.
immensely
hardly, not exactly

Her comment—‘You can always try again if you fail’—was hardly reassuring.

vaguely
oddly, strangely
somehow
PHRASES
it is reassuring to hear, know, see, etc.
Reassuring is used with these nouns: ↑hand, ↑hug, ↑nod, ↑pat, ↑smile, ↑squeeze

Collocations dictionary. 2013.

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