Obliging
Placatory
Placatory adjective - Tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostility.
Usage example: a placatory effort to improve relations with the townspeople, who were upset about the wild campus parties
Obliging and placatory are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Obliging" instead an adjective "Placatory".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- agreeable and obliging
- agreeable and placatory
- amiable and obliging
- amiable and placatory
- pleasing and obliging
- pleasing and placatory
- kind and obliging
- kind and placatory
- harmonious and obliging
- harmonious and placatory
- lenient and obliging
- lenient and placatory
- kindly and obliging
- kindly and placatory
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