conciliatory

3 definitions found

conciliatory - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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conciliatory - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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,
             conciliatory, flexible] [ant: inflexible, sturdy,
             uncompromising]
      2: intended to placate; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a
         conciliatory visit" [syn: conciliatory, conciliative]
         [ant: antagonistic]

conciliatory - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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