placating
Definition
- 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.
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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