Synonyms of placatory

placatory

adjective

as in conciliatory

tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostility

a placatory effort to improve relations with the townspeople, who were upset about the wild campus parties

Synonyms & Similar Words

• conciliatory
• soothing
• propitiatory
• benevolent
• comforting
• kind
• appeasing
• mollifying
• placating
• peaceful
• gentle
• calming
• pacific
• conciliating
• kindly
• disarming
• relaxing
• quieting
• ingratiating
• pacifying
• peacemaking
• satisfying
• passive
• winning
• obliging
• endearing
• peaceable
• tranquilizing
• unassertive
• tranquillizing
• amiable
• nonbelligerent
• winsome
• good-natured
• unaggressive
• submissive
• amicable
• lulling
• surrendering
• yielding
• affable
• agreeable
• genial
• good-tempered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• inflammatory
• provocative
• provoking
• irritating
• offensive
• abrasive
• nagging
• annoying
• irksome
• aggravating
• exasperating
• vexing
• maddening
• frustrating
• engaging
• galling
• hostile
• antagonistic
• infuriating
• antagonizing
• belligerent
• nettling
• confrontational
• rankling
• inimical
• combative
• bellicose
• unfriendly
• nettlesome
• aggressive
• antipathetic
• riling
• assertive
• military
• pugnacious
• unsympathetic
• inhospitable
• truculent
• argumentative
• chafing
• warlike
• quarrelsome
• contentious
• incensing
• agonistic
• militant
• militaristic
• martial
• scrappy