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adjective
- 1. intended to make someone less angry or hostile; conciliatory: "his hands held in a placatory gesture"
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lull someone into something. melt. relaxation. settle down. shirt. simmer down. slow down. See more results » (Definition of placatory from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of placatory. placatory.
to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease… See the full definition
Placatory definition: serving, tending, or intended to placate. See examples of PLACATORY used in a sentence.
Definition of 'placatory' placatory. (pləkeɪtəri , US pleɪkətɔːri ) adjective. A placatory remark or action is intended to make someone stop feeling angry. [formal] When next he spoke he was more placatory. He raised a placatory hand. 'All right, we'll see what we can do.'
placatory - intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures"; "an astonishingly placatory speech"
placatory. Definitions of placatory. adjective. intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions. “an astonishingly placatory speech”. synonyms: appeasing, placating, placative. conciliative, conciliatory. intended to placate.
Definition of placatory adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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intended to make someone less angry or hostile; conciliatory: . Meaning, pronunciation and example sentences, English to English reference content.
