placating

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placating

The manager made a placating gesture to calm the upset customer.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Intended to pacify or soothe: Describes actions, words, or gestures meant to calm someone who is angry, upset, or dissatisfied, often by agreeing to their demands or making concessions.
Examples of Usage
  • Adjective:
    • Her placating tone helped to defuse the tense argument.
    • He offered a placating smile, hoping it would ease her frustration.
    • The manager made several placating promises to the unhappy customer.
Advanced Usage
  • Used to describe a strategy or approach: Often describes a deliberate tactic to manage conflict or reduce hostility.
    • The diplomat's placating remarks were a careful attempt to prevent further escalation.
Variants and Related Words
  • Placate (verb): To make someone less angry or hostile.
    • The government tried to placate the protesters with new policies.
  • Placatory (adjective): Synonymous with "placating"; having the quality of appeasing.
    • He adopted a placatory attitude during the negotiations.
  • Placative (adjective): Another less common synonym for "placating".
    • She used a placative gesture to show she meant no harm.
Synonyms
  • Appeasing: Intended to pacify or placate by acceding to demands.
  • Conciliatory: Intended or likely to placate or reconcile.
  • Mollifying: Tending to soothe anger or agitation.
  • Pacifying: Having the effect of making someone calm or peaceful.
Antonyms
  • Provocative: Causing annoyance, 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
  • A placating manner: A way of behaving intended to soothe someone.
    • She handled the complaint with a placating manner.
  • Placating words: Specific language chosen to calm a situation.
    • He searched for the right placating words to say to his friend.
placating

The manager made a placating gesture to calm the upset customer.

Adjective
  1. 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

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