Word Study
placating
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective placating has 1 sense
- placating(s = adj.all) appeasing, placative, placatory - intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures"; "an astonishingly placatory speech"
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