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conciliatory

/kənˈsɪl.i.əˌtɔɹ.i/

conciliatory adjective: willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.

Adjective

conciliatory (comparative more conciliatory, superlative most conciliatory)

  1. Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.
    • 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 218
    • 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 2013
    Antonyms:
    unconciliatory

conciliatory meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

conciliatory in Bengali

মিটমাটকারী, সমঝোতামূলক, বিরোধ মেটানোর উদ্দেশ্যে

conciliatory in Malayalam

placatory, propitiatory, appeasing
അനുരഞ്നാത്മകം, അനുരഞ്ജകം, ആശ്വാസക, ആശ്വാസകം, രഞ്ജക, ആശ്വസിപ്പിക്കുന്ന

conciliatory in Kannada

ಸಮಾಧಾನಗೊಳಿಸುವ, ಉಪಶಮನ ಮಾಡುವ, ರಾಜಿಮಾಡಿಸುವ

Examples of conciliatory in a sentence

  • Conciliatory gestures and speechmaking have abounded from both sides in recent weeks.
  • Furthermore, Liu Wen-hui currently seems to be pursuing a conciliatory policy toward the Tibetans and Lolos.
  • “Any ship is that—for a reasonable man,” generalised Marlow in a conciliatory tone.

All 10 example sentences with conciliatory

Antonyms of conciliatory

Forms of conciliatory

comparativemore conciliatory
superlativemost conciliatory

Words formed from conciliatory

Questions about conciliatory

What does conciliatory mean?
Conciliatory means willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.
What is conciliatory in Bengali?
Conciliatory in Bengali is মিটমাটকারী, সমঝোতামূলক, বিরোধ মেটানোর উদ্দেশ্যে. See Conciliatory meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is conciliatory?
Conciliatory is an adjective.
How do you pronounce conciliatory?
Conciliatory is pronounced /kənˈsɪl.i.əˌtɔɹ.i/ (US).

Words near conciliatory in the dictionary

  1. conciliative
  2. conciliator
  3. conciliatorily
  4. conciliatoriness
  5. conciliators
  6. conciliatory
  7. conciliatrix
  8. concinnate
  9. concinnated
  10. concinnates
  11. concinnating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conciliatory (page history and authors); conciliatory (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conciliatory (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); conciliatory (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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