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Helpful vs Conciliatory - What's the difference?

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Helpful is a related term of conciliatory.


As adjectives the difference between helpful and conciliatory

is that helpful is furnishing help; giving aid; useful while conciliatory is willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.

helpful

English

Alternative forms

* helpfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.

    • See also

    * helpfully * helpfulness

    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