Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions;
- Example: "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"- Example: "placating (or placative) gestures"- Example: "an astonishingly placatory speech"[syn: appeasing(a), placating, placative, placatory]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
placatory
adj 1: intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting
concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at
Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures"; "an
astonishingly placatory speech" [syn: appeasing(a),
placating, placative, placatory]