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placatingadjective tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostilitya placating comment that seemed to calm everyone down a bit appeasing, conciliating, conciliatory, disarming, mollifying, pacific, pacifying, peacemaking, 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 to lessen the anger or agitation ofattempted to placate the screaming child by offering him a cookie appeasing, assuaging, conciliating, disarming, gentling, mollifying, pacifying, 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 |