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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]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Placate \Pla"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Placated; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Placating.] [L. placatus, p. p. of placare to placate,
   akin to placere to please. See Please.]
   To appease; to pacify; to concilate. "Therefore is he always
   propitiated and placated." --Cudworth.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

placating
    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]