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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. making or willing to make concessions;
- Example: "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
[syn: compromising, conciliatory, flexible]

2. intended to placate;
- Example: "spoke in a conciliating tone"
- Example: "a conciliatory visit"
[syn: conciliatory, conciliative]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Conciliatory \Con*cil"i*a*to*ry\ (?; 106), a. Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. [1913 Webster] The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

conciliatory adj 1: making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" [syn: compromising, conciliatory, flexible] [ant: inflexible, sturdy, uncompromising] 2: intended to placate; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit" [syn: conciliatory, conciliative] [ant: antagonistic]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "conciliatory": appeasing, benevolent, civilian, dovish, forbearing, forgiving, generous, irenic, kind, long-suffering, longanimous, magnanimous, mollifying, nonaggressive, noncombatant, nonmilitant, nonviolent, pacific, pacificatory, pacifist, pacifistic, pacifying, patient, peace-loving, peaceable, placable, placative, placatory, propitiative, propitiatory, reconciliatory, soothing, sparing, tolerant, unbellicose, uncontentious, unhostile, unmilitant, unmilitary, unresentful, unrevengeful