placative

adjective

Definition of placativenext
as in conciliatory

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  1. conciliatory
  2. pacific
  3. peaceable
  4. sympathetic
  5. kind
  6. benign
  7. disarming
  8. peaceful
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
  • 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
  • The most formidable obstacle to a peaceable refuge was the double-decker section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that hugs the cliff below Brooklyn Heights.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 July 2024
  • In one study, 18 percent of patients flew, sang, danced, laughed, lectured or enacted other peaceable activities.
    Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2023
Definition of peaceable
Adjective
  • Many states that rely on advisory committee recommendations for vaccination schedules and mandates could also choose to ignore them if people sympathetic to Kennedy’s views join the panels.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The opposition was working with sympathetic regime members to lobby members of Venezuela’s high court to rule Maduro’s reelection illegitimate.
    Zach Dorfman, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of sympathetic
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
  • Examine the clues, discard the red herrings, ignore the obvious, and clock the suspicious behavior of that seemingly benign neighbor.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • While some reasons are more benign than others, the behavior can signal larger health concerns, says Alt.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of benign
Adjective
  • This will be both disarming and believable, allowing your daughter to propose times that are both far off and inconvenient.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
  • What follows instead is a pivotal listen that conveys trauma in an assured yet disarming way.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2021
Definition of disarming
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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