'Conciliatory' definitions:
Definition of 'conciliatory'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" [syn: compromising, conciliatory, flexible] [ant: inflexible, sturdy, uncompromising]
adjective
Intended to placate; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit" [syn: conciliatory, conciliative] [ant: antagonistic]
Definition of 'Conciliatory'
From: GCIDE
- Conciliatory \Con*cil"i*a*to*ry\ (?; 106), a. Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. [1913 Webster]
- The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'conciliatory'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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