Meanings
comparative more conciliatory · superlative most conciliatory
- Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.
Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.
2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 20131 more example
Lady Anne checked herself, for she heard a carriage stop at the door, and her daughters enter the house; and she had not made up her mind as to the turn she should give to their conciliatory visit.
1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 218Antonyms: unconciliatory
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveWilling to conciliate, or to make concessions.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivemaking or willing to make concessions
adjectiveintended to placate
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian умиротворяващ, помирителен
- умиротворяващ (umirotvorjavašt)willing to conciliate
- помирителен (pomiritelen)willing to conciliate
Catalan conciliatori
- conciliatoriwilling to conciliate
Chinese Mandarin 安撫的 /安抚的, 懷柔的 /怀柔的
- 安撫的 /安抚的 (ānfǔ de)willing to conciliate
- 懷柔的 /怀柔的 (huáiróu de)willing to conciliate
- 和解 (héjiě)willing to conciliate
Czech smířlivý
- smířlivýwilling to conciliate
Finnish sovitteleva, sovittelunhaluinen
- sovittelevawilling to conciliate
- sovittelunhaluinenwilling to conciliate
French accommodant, conciliatoire
- accommodantwilling to conciliate
- conciliatoirewilling to conciliate
German versöhnlich
- versöhnlichwilling to conciliate
Greek συμφιλιωτικός, συμβιβαστικός
- συμφιλιωτικός (symfiliotikós)willing to conciliate
- συμβιβαστικός (symvivastikós)willing to conciliate
- διαλλακτικός (diallaktikós)willing to conciliate
Italian conciliatorio, conciliante
- conciliatoriowilling to conciliate
- conciliantewilling to conciliate
Norwegian forsonlig
- forsonligwilling to conciliate
Polish pojednawczy, ugodowy
- pojednawczywilling to conciliate
- ugodowywilling to conciliate
Portuguese conciliatório
- conciliatóriowilling to conciliate
Russian примири́тельный, умиротворя́ющий
- примири́тельный (primirítelʹnyj)willing to conciliate
- умиротворя́ющий (umirotvorjájuščij)willing to conciliate
Spanish conciliatorio
- conciliatoriowilling to conciliate
Turkish uzlaştırıcı, gönül alıcı
- uzlaştırıcıwilling to conciliate
- gönül alıcıwilling to conciliate
- barıştırıcıwilling to conciliate
Ukrainian примирливий, заспокійливий
- примирливий (prymyrlyvyj)willing to conciliate
- заспокійливий (zaspokijlyvyj)willing to conciliate
- погоджувальний (pohodžuvalʹnyj)willing to conciliate
Cite this entry
conciliatory. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conciliatory
“conciliatory.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conciliatory. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “conciliatory,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conciliatory.
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