placate
/icons/point.icon PACIFY, APPEASE, PLACATE, MOLLIFY, PROPITIATE, CONCILIATE mean to ease the anger or disturbance of.
PACIFY suggests a soothing or calming.
e.g.pacified by a sincere apology
APPEASE implies quieting insistent demands by making concessions.
e.g.appease their territorial ambitions
PLACATE suggests changing resentment or bitterness to goodwill.
e.g.a move to placate local opposition
MOLLIFY implies soothing hurt feelings or rising anger.
e.g.a speech that mollified the demonstrators
PROPITIATE implies averting anger or malevolence especially of a superior being.
e.g.propitiated his parents by dressing up
CONCILIATE suggests ending an estrangement by persuasion, concession, or settling of differences.
e.g.conciliating the belligerent nations
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verb with object
make (someone) less angry or hostile:
｟かたく｠ 〈人〉をなだめる; 〈怒り･敵意など〉を和らげる, 静める; …を懐柔する.
e.g. they attempted to placate the students with promises.
DERIVATIVES
placatingly |pləˈkātiNG-lē| adverb
placation |plāˈkāSHən| noun
placater undefinedundefinednoun
ORIGIN
late 17th century: from Latin placat- ‘appeased’, from the verb placare.