conciliative

1. 1.

   intended to placate

   “spoke in a conciliating tone”

   “a conciliatory visit”

   Synonymsconciliatory

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Questions about conciliative

What does conciliative mean?

conciliative means "intended to placate".

How many syllables are in conciliative?

conciliative has 5 syllables: con-ci-li-a-tive. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for conciliative?

Close synonyms include conciliatory. 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 conciliative a common word?

conciliative 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.