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Indefatigable vs Placate - What's the difference?

indefatigable | placate |

As an adjective indefatigable

is extremely persistent and untiring.

As a verb placate is

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.

indefatigable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Extremely persistent and untiring.
  • *
    • but he was at the same time an excellent scholar, and most indefatigable in teaching the two lads.
  • * 1898 , :
    • All night long the Martians were hammering and stirring, sleepless, indefatigable , at work upon the machines they were making ready, and ever and again a puff of greenish-white smoke whirled up to the starlit sky.

    Synonyms

    * inexhaustible, tireless, unflagging, unsinkable, untiring, unwearying,

    Antonyms

    * defatigable (much less common)

    Derived terms

    * indefatigably * indefatigability * indefatigableness

    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

    Related terms

    * placid