[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