appeasing
Definition
- Adjective:
- Intended to pacify or calm: Describes actions, gestures, or policies that are designed to soothe anger, reduce hostility, or prevent conflict by making concessions or agreeing to demands.
- Conciliatory, placating: Characterized by an effort to appease or satisfy someone, often by yielding to their requests.
Usage and Examples
- Adjective:
- The government's appeasing gestures were meant to avoid a trade war. (The government's actions were intended to pacify and prevent conflict.)
- She spoke in an appeasing tone to calm the upset customer. (Her tone was conciliatory and designed to soothe.)
- Historians criticize the appeasing policies of the 1930s. (The policies aimed to pacify aggressive nations through concessions.)
Advanced Usage
- Used in political/historical contexts: Often describes diplomatic strategies involving concessions to a perceived aggressor to maintain peace.
- The treaty was seen as an appeasing measure, sacrificing principles for temporary stability.
- Used in interpersonal contexts: Describes behavior intended to mollify someone in a personal disagreement.
- His appeasing smile did little to resolve the underlying argument.
Variants and Related Words
- Appease (verb): To pacify, calm, or satisfy by granting concessions or addressing grievances.
- The manager tried to appease the angry crowd with promises of a refund.
- Appeasement (noun): The action or policy of appeasing.
- The policy of appeasement failed to prevent the outbreak of war.
Synonyms
- Placating: Acting to make someone less angry or hostile.
- Conciliatory: Intended or likely to placate or reconcile.
- Pacifying: Quelling the anger, agitation, or excitement of.
- Propitiatory: Intended to win or regain the favor of.
Antonyms
- Provocative: Causing anger or another strong reaction, especially deliberately.
- Aggravating: Making a problem or offense worse or more serious.
- Inflammatory: Arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- An appeasing strategy: A plan of action based on making concessions.
- Their appeasing strategy only emboldened the opposition.
- To take an appeasing line: To adopt a conciliatory position or approach.
- In the negotiations, the delegate took an appeasing line to keep the talks going.
Adjective
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intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
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the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich
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placating (or placative) gestures
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an astonishingly placatory speech
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