placate

Other forms of placate

past tense

placated·

present participle

placating·

third person

placates·

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 placate

What does placate mean?

placate means "cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of".

How many syllables are in placate?

placate has 2 syllables: pla-cate. The stress falls on "pla". In IPA it is /ˈpleɪkeɪt/.

What is another word for placate?

Close synonyms include pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease. 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 placate a common word?

placate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.