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adjective

Definition of placatingnext
as in appeasing
tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostility a placating comment that seemed to calm everyone down a bit

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placating

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verb

present participle of placate
as in comforting
to lessen the anger or agitation of attempted to placate the screaming child by offering him a cookie

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for placating
  1. appeasing
  2. conciliatory
  3. soothing
  4. benevolent
  5. pacific
  6. kind
  7. peaceful
Verb
  • The new strategy allows streamers to provide subscribers with new content while appeasing Wall Street by reigning in spending.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
  • There are amazing innovations in the industry that will help both consumers and brands to become more sustainable while appeasing regulations.
    Lindsey Bartlett, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of appeasing
Adjective
  • Niccol has taken a more conciliatory tone with the union.
    Azure Gilman, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2024
  • In recent years, the British monarchy has adopted a more conciliatory tone when addressing the past horrors of transatlantic slavery.
    Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of conciliatory
Adjective
  • It’s infused with Korean centella asiatica, renowned for its powerful soothing properties.
    Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Hatch employees worked alongside KFC's food innovation team to record the soothing sounds of frying KFC's new Original Recipe Tenders.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of soothing
Adjective
  • Many people believe that slavery in Latin America was a benevolent institution.
    Ana Lucia Araujo / Made by History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
  • In recent years, the naive belief held by most Americans, that the Fed is an apolitical body of benevolent technocrats who would never use their immense, ring-of-Sauron-like power for anything but the good of humanity, has evaporated.
    Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of benevolent
Adjective
  • Choose between two rich colors: pacific blue or yarrow gold.
    Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Because roughly half the population there are Seventh-Day Adventists, and their interpretation of the Bible in regards to eating animals is a pacific one.
    Danny Palumbo / The Takeout, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2024
Definition of pacific
Adjective
  • Be kind to yourself: The election is stressing us out.
    Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • So try to do something kind for yourself in the process of grieving.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of kind
Adjective
  • Trump returns to White House for symbolic meeting President-elect Donald Trump will meet with President Joe Biden today in a symbolic White House ceremony meant to signal the peaceful transfer of power.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The system proved incapable of punishing Trump personally for his concerted, multifaceted refusal to accept his defeat and accept a peaceful transfer of power in 2020.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of peaceful
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