conciliatory Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective making or willing to make concessions
    flexible; compromising.
    • loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet
  2. adjective intended to placate
    conciliative.
    • spoke in a conciliating tone
    • a conciliatory visit

WordNet


Con*cil"i*a*to*ry adjective
Definitions
  1. Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating.
    The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.

Webster 1913