conciliatory

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɪl.i.əˌtɔɹ.i/

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Adjective

conciliatory (comparative more conciliatory, superlative most conciliatory)

1. Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.
   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 218:

     Lady Anne checked herself, for she heard a carriage stop at the door, and her daughters enter the house; and she had not made up her mind as to the turn she should give to their conciliatory visit.

   • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 June 2013:

     Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.

Antonyms

• unconciliatory

Derived terms

• conciliatorily
• conciliatoriness
• nonconciliatory

 

Translations

willing to conciliate

Belarusian: заспакойваючы (zaspakójvajučy), прымірыцельны (prymirycjelʹny), змірэнчы (zmirenčy) Bulgarian: умиротворяващ (bg) (umirotvorjavašt), помирителен (bg) (pomiritelen) Chinese: Mandarin: 安撫的／安抚的 (zh) (ānfǔ de), 懷柔的／怀柔的 (zh) (huáiróu de), 和解 (zh) (héjiě) Czech: smířlivý (cs) m Finnish: sovitteleva, sovittelunhaluinen French: accommodant (fr) German: versöhnlich (de) Greek: συμφιλιωτικός (el) (symfiliotikós), συμβιβαστικός (el) (symvivastikós), διαλλακτικός (el) (diallaktikós) Macedonian: по́мирлив (pómirliv), помиру́вачки (pomirúvački) Polish: pojednawczy, ugodowy (pl) Russian: примири́тельный (ru) (primirítelʹnyj), умиротворя́ющий (ru) (umirotvorjájuščij) Turkish: uzlaştırıcı (tr), gönül alıcı, barıştırıcı Ukrainian: примирливий m (prymyrlyvyj), заспокійливий m (zaspokijlyvyj), погоджувальний m (pohodžuvalʹnyj)