Conciliatory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Conciliatory \Con*cil"i*a*to*ry\ (?; 106), a.
     Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating.
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           The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse
           to the conciliatory policy.              --Prescott.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  conciliatory
       adj 1: making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore
              through him...whenever he thought of...even the
              compromising Louis du Tillet" [syn: {compromising}, {flexible}]
              [ant: {uncompromising}]
       2: overcoming animosity or hostility; "spoke in a conciliating
          tone"; "a conciliatory visit" [syn: {conciliative}] [ant:
          {antagonistic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "conciliatory":
     appeasing, benevolent, civilian, dovish, forbearing, forgiving,
     generous, irenic, kind, long-suffering, longanimous, magnanimous,
     mollifying, nonaggressive, noncombatant, nonmilitant, nonviolent,
     pacific, pacificatory, pacifist, pacifistic, pacifying, patient,
     peace-loving, peaceable, placable, placative, placatory,
     propitiative, propitiatory, reconciliatory, soothing, sparing,
     tolerant, unbellicose, uncontentious, unhostile, unmilitant,
     unmilitary, unresentful, unrevengeful