conciliate

1. 1.

   cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

   “She managed to mollify the angry customer”

   Synonymspacifylenifyassuageappeasemollifyplacategentlegruntle

   Broadercalm
2. 2.

   come to terms

   “After some discussion we finally made up”

   Synonymsreconcilepatch upmake upsettle

   Broaderagree

   Narrowerpropitiatemake peace
3. 3.

   make (one thing) compatible with (another)

   “The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories”

   Synonymsaccommodatereconcile

   Broaderharmonize

Other forms of conciliate

past tense

conciliated·

present participle

conciliating·

third person

conciliates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about conciliate

What does conciliate mean?

conciliate means "cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in conciliate?

conciliate has 4 syllables: con-ci-li-ate. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for conciliate?

Close synonyms include pacify, lenify, assuage, appease, mollify. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conciliate a common word?

conciliate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.