reconcile
/'rekənsail/
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He worked hard to reconcile his personal goals with his professional responsibilities.
Definition
- Verb:
- To restore friendly relations between: To cause people or groups to become friendly again after an argument or disagreement.
- To make one account or fact consistent with another: To find a way in which two situations, beliefs, or facts that are opposed to each other can agree and be true.
- To cause to accept something unpleasant: To make someone accept a disagreeable or unwelcome reality, often after initial resistance.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- It took years for the two brothers to reconcile after their fight.
- How do you reconcile your political beliefs with your financial investments?
- She struggled to reconcile herself to the fact that her dream job was no longer available.
Advanced Usage
"to reconcile oneself to something": To accept an unpleasant situation that one cannot change.
- He had to reconcile himself to living far from his family for his career.
"to reconcile differences": To find a solution to disagreements.
- A good mediator can help reconcile differences between conflicting parties.
Variants and Related Words
Reconcilable (adj): Capable of being made consistent or brought into harmony.
- Their viewpoints are not easily reconcilable.
Reconciliation (n): The act of restoring friendly relations or the state of being reconciled.
- The peace treaty led to a reconciliation between the two nations.
Reconciled (adj): No longer opposed; having accepted a situation.
- She seemed reconciled to the final decision.
Synonyms
- Harmonize: To bring into agreement or make compatible.
- Settle: To resolve a dispute or disagreement.
- Acquiesce: To accept something reluctantly but without protest.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Reconcile with: To restore a friendly relationship with someone.
- He hoped to reconcile with his former business partner.
Related Idioms
- Bury the hatchet: To make peace; to end a quarrel (This is a conceptual synonym for the act of reconciling).
- After years of feuding, the two families finally decided to bury the hatchet.
He worked hard to reconcile his personal goals with his professional responsibilities.
Verb
- accept as inevitable
- He resigned himself to his fate
- come to terms
- After some discussion we finally made up
- bring into consonance or accord
- harmonize one's goals with one's abilities
- make (one thing) compatible with (another)
- The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories