Meaning of CONCILIATORY
| Pronunciation: | | kun'sileeu`towree
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- [adj] overcoming animosity or hostility; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit"
- [adj] making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
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| | Synonyms: | | appeasing(a), compromising, conciliating, conciliative, flexible, placating, placative, placatory, propitiative, propitiatory, yielding |
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| | Antonyms: | | antagonising, antagonistic, antagonizing, inflexible, uncompromising | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Con*cil"i*a*to*ry\ (?; 106), a.
Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating.
The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse
to the conciliatory policy. --Prescott.
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| | Related Terms: | | appeasing, benevolent, civilian, dovish, forbearing, forgiving, generous, irenic, kind, longanimous, long-suffering, magnanimous, mollifying, nonaggressive, noncombatant, nonmilitant, nonviolent, pacific, pacificatory, pacifist, pacifistic, pacifying, patient, peaceable, peace-loving, placable, placative, placatory, propitiative, propitiatory, reconciliatory, soothing, sparing, tolerant, unbellicose, uncontentious, unhostile, unmilitant, unmilitary, unresentful, unrevengeful |
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