conciliatory
/kənˈsɪliətəri
/adjective
Intended or likely to placate or pacify: a conciliatory approach...
- The deal is largely the result of a more conciliatory approach from Bob Iger, the Disney chief executive who was promoted last October.
- Pro-democracy legislators have been invited to the event in a move seen as a conciliatory gesture from Beijing.
- Articulate, quick on his feet and funny, Devaney takes a conciliatory approach to partisan issues.
Synonyms
propitiatory, placatory, appeasing, pacifying, pacific, mollifying, so as to pour oil on troubled waters, peacemaking, reconciliatory
rare pacificatory, propitiative, placative, irenic
- Francophobia
- francophone
- Francophonia
- Franco-Prussian War
- francs-archer
- franc-tireur
- franger
- frangible
- frangipane
- frangipani
- franglais
- frank
- frankalmoign
- Frank, Anne
- franked investment income
- Frankenfish
- Frankenfood
- Frankenstein
- Frankenstein food
- Frankenstein's monster
- franker
- Frankfort
- Frankfurt
- frankfurter
- Frankfurter, Felix