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conciliatingadjective tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostilitysmall conciliating acts designed to win the trust of the new neighbors appeasing, conciliatory, disarming, mollifying, pacific, pacifying, peacemaking, placating, placatory, propitiatory endearing, ingratiating, winning, winsomepeaceable, peacefulnonbelligerent, unaggressive, unassertivecalming, comforting, lulling, quieting, relaxing, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)obliging, satisfyingaffable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, benevolent, genial, gentle, good-natured, good-tempered, kind, kindlypassive, submissive, surrendering, yielding antagonizing abrasive, aggravating, annoying, chafing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, inflammatory, irksome, irritating, maddening, nagging, nettlesome, nettling, offensive, provocative, provoking, rankling, riling, vexingengaging, incensing, infuriating, maddeningantagonistic, antipathetic, hostile, inhospitable, inimical, unfriendly, unsympatheticaggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assertive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, confrontational, contentious, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculentmartial, militant, militaristic, military, warlike conciliatingverbpresent participle of conciliateto bring to a state free of conflicts, inconsistencies, or differencesit will be hard to conciliate the views of labor and management regarding health benefits accommodating, attuning, conforming, coordinating, harmonizing, keying, reconciling adapting, tuningblending, combining, connecting, correlating, dovetailing, fitting, fusing, integrating, joining, matching, merging, orchestrating, pairing, squaring, suiting, synchronizing, synthesizing, unifying, unitingaligning(also alining), arranging, arraying, balancing, equalizing, evening, ordering, proportioning, regularizing, standardizing disharmonizing confusing, disarraying, disordering, disorganizing, disrupting, disturbing, skewing, upsettingalienating, estranging to lessen the anger or agitation ofa principal trying to conciliate the parents who did not receive their tickets to the graduation ceremonies appeasing, assuaging, disarming, gentling, mollifying, pacifying, placating, propitiating calming, comforting, consoling, contenting, hushing, quieting, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)endearing (to), ingratiatingdelighting, gladdening, gratifying, pleasingadulating, blarneying, flattering, overpraising, soft-soapingquenching, satiating, sating, satisfyingcatering (to), humoring, indulgingblandishing, cajoling, coaxing, sweet-talking, wheedlingbabying, coddling, mollycoddling, pampering, spoilingdulcifying, sweetening angering, enraging, incensing, inflaming(also enflaming), infuriating, iring, maddening, outraging aggravating, annoying, antagonizing, bothering, bugging, burning (up), chafing, crossing, exasperating, galling, getting, grating, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, piquing, putting out, rankling, riling, roiling, ruffling, vexingprovoking, rousingharassing, harrying, persecuting, pesteringagitating, discomforting, distressing, disturbing, fretting, perturbing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, worryingaffronting, insulting, offending, slighting |