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Conciliatory vs Placated - What's the difference?

conciliatory | placated |

As an adjective conciliatory

is willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.

As a verb placated is

(placate).

conciliatory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • willing to conciliate, or to make concessions
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
  • Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.

    Antonyms

    * unconciliatory

    Derived terms

    * conciliatoriness

    placated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (placate)

  • placate

    English

    Verb

    (placat)
  • To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that he or she becomes content or at least no longer irate.
  • Synonyms

    * (to calm) appease, mollify, satisfy

    Antonyms

    * (to calm) enrage

    Derived terms

    * placater * placating * placatingly * placation * placative * placatory