PLACATING
Dictionary entry overview: What does placating mean? • PLACATING (adjective)
The adjective PLACATING has 1 sense:
1. tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
Familiarity information: PLACATING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PLACATING (adjective)
Meaning:
Tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
Synonyms:
appeasing; placating; placative; placatory
Context examples:
the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich / placating (or placative) gestures / an astonishingly placatory speech
Similar:
conciliative; conciliatory (intended or likely to overcome animosity or hostility)
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