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[ adjective ] tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions

Synonyms

placative placatory appeasing

Examples

"the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich" "placating (or placative) gestures" "an astonishingly placatory speech"

Used in print

(Alex Gordon, The Cipher....)

Griffith raised placating hands .

Related terms

conciliating

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Rhymes with

locating implicating exhilarating accelerating duplicating complicating exasperating debilitating commemorating deregulating suffocating indicating assimilating oscillating deteriorating obliterating pulsating invalidating exacerbating operating regulating humiliating delegating calculating plating deprecating titillating moderating regenerating self-deprecating relegating liberating circulating stimulating radiating alternating reciprocating reverberating intoxicating legislating communicating populating vacillating isolating validating invigorating permeating baiting weighting waiting mating rating dating elating skating ingratiating nauseating depreciating excruciating officiating lactating rotating updating equating accommodating coordinating contaminating hesitating fluctuating illuminating penetrating participating agitating integrating motivating precipitating extenuating obviating nominating captivating infuriating alienating aggravating devastating dominating irritating disseminating frustrating intimidating annotating detonating resonating incriminating incapacitating activating subordinating investigating discriminating fascinating denigrating grating abating vibrating negating berating updating annotating hallucinating letting coating cutting squirting protecting painting wasting flirting bloodletting tasting interpreting petting ting betting getting skirting acting lighting protesting overheating testing tenting jetting accepting alerting clotting counting costing carting courting casting arresting conflicting netting looting setting wetting executing squatting collecting reflecting unrelenting hurting bullfighting protesting protecting correcting accenting directing broadcasting detecting forecasting intersecting fermenting eating bursting fleeting fingerpointing unexciting contacting exciting slighting gloating accounting belting recounting recasting biting beating tempting editing cheating sheeting outing spurting typewriting exacting splitting venting highlighting skywriting offsetting floating melting meat-eating listing lasting sweating depicting renting completing conducting

Phonetic and Homophones

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Similar Spelling

placatingly playacting placation plication placative playact placate pluck_at plectron Plectania playactor placatory plicate plectognath plastinate placket

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