reassuring
Carole reassuringly guided me to my seat.
The results of the survey were reassuringly positive.
"We'll be OK," Maria said reassuringly.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Reassuring
assure someone of something
be/take a weight off your mindidiom
blandishments
calm (someone) down
comforting
consolation
console
consoling
consolingly
lift
lighten
mind
reassurance
reassure
reassuring
settle down
tabling
they should worry!idiom
weight
you do you idiom

Examples of reassuringly

reassuringly
Reassuringly, there were no false positives, but there were several false negatives.
Reassuringly, some of the more negative attitudes do not seem to be fixed and there was an openness to consider newer preparations.
Such first-hand accounts, being published in world languages in book form, represent a type of source that many historians will find reassuringly familiar.
Reassuringly, the age profiles of wealth of the young entrepreneurs are flatter than those of older ones, except the latest cohort.
Here, then, is medium as passive matter: down-to-earth, brisk, appreciative of good food, and reassuringly ignorant.
Reassuringly free of any offensive on bourgeois society, the book promotes the heady confidence in progress typical of the high culture of imperialism.
Yet the \\t\\ at the end is reassuringly past-like, and of course it was, historically, the past of ' wend '.
It is not a rousing political economy that fits every piece of the human puzzle reassuringly into its omnibus.
But in 1938- 9, its public appeal crystallized into a simpler form : a resource that, albeit poorly understood, seemed reassuringly vast.
Both men transmit only the happy dead; as in the nineteenth century, the living exist only as conduits to an afterlife reassuringly close to the life we know.
In another experiment, in which subjects (young adults) knew that both lists had to be recalled, the results reassuringly suggested that both lists remained in the focus of attention.
This reassuringly demonstrates that, at least in terms of their content, the stories speakers told during the interview context were not necessarily different from those told in peer groups.
They are engaging to read and include 'flops' and disasters along with evident successes, grounding them refreshingly and reassuringly in real life and supporting the reader in identifying with them.
The significant predictors of participation (monozygosity, female gender, age, having a co-twin who was also eligible, and fewer hospitalizations) are not unexpected and reassuringly small in magnitude.
Paragraph 126 of the report showed that there was a reassuringly high correlation in the judgments made by inspectors on the same lesson.
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