Usually means: Intended to soothe or pacify.
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  1. placatory: Merriam-Webster
  2. placatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. placatory: Collins English Dictionary
  4. placatory: Vocabulary.com
  5. placatory: Wordnik
  6. placatory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. placatory: Wiktionary
  8. placatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. placatory: Dictionary.com
  10. placatory: Rhymezone
  11. placatory: FreeDictionary.org
  12. placatory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. placatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. placatory: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  That placates; pacifying.

Similar:
conciliative, appease, placable, pacificatory, appeasive, placentious, conciliant, propitiatory, emollient, pleasy, more...

Opposite:
antagonistic, confrontational, hostile, combative

Types:
appeasing, conciliatory, mollifying, palliative, propitiatory, more...

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Similar:
conciliative, appease, placable, pacificatory, appeasive, placentious, conciliant, propitiatory, emollient, pleasy, more...

Opposite:
antagonistic, confrontational, hostile, combative

Types:
appeasing, conciliatory, mollifying, palliative, propitiatory, more...



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