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appeasingadjective tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostilitywe had been feuding with the people next door, so inviting them to the party was intended as an appeasing gesture conciliating, 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 to lessen the anger or agitation ofa game often appeases an upset toddler assuaging, conciliating, 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 |