Synonyms of appeasing

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adjective

as in placating

tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostility

we had been feuding with the people next door, so inviting them to the party was intended as an appeasing gesture

Synonyms & Similar Words

• placating
• conciliatory
• soothing
• placatory
• benevolent
• comforting
• mollifying
• propitiatory
• peaceful
• conciliating
• calming
• pacific
• kind
• pacifying
• quieting
• disarming
• satisfying
• relaxing
• gentle
• kindly
• winning
• peacemaking
• ingratiating
• obliging
• passive
• endearing
• peaceable
• tranquilizing
• nonbelligerent
• amiable
• tranquillizing
• surrendering
• unassertive
• winsome
• submissive
• unaggressive
• good-natured
• yielding
• lulling
• amicable
• agreeable
• affable
• genial
• good-tempered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• provoking
• nagging
• aggravating
• inflammatory
• irritating
• annoying
• frustrating
• antagonizing
• offensive
• provocative
• vexing
• irksome
• maddening
• engaging
• exasperating
• abrasive
• hostile
• galling
• infuriating
• riling
• rankling
• antagonistic
• inimical
• nettling
• aggressive
• belligerent
• nettlesome
• unfriendly
• inhospitable
• military
• chafing
• antipathetic
• confrontational
• combative
• assertive
• unsympathetic
• incensing
• bellicose
• truculent
• pugnacious
• quarrelsome
• militant
• warlike
• argumentative
• contentious
• militaristic
• agonistic
• martial
• scrappy

appeasing

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verb

present participle of appease

as in comforting

to lessen the anger or agitation of

a game often appeases an upset toddler

Synonyms & Similar Words

• comforting
• placating
• pleasing
• calming
• soothing
• consoling
• propitiating
• pacifying
• mollifying
• conciliating
• assuaging
• disarming
• delighting
• satisfying
• quieting
• gentling
• contenting
• tranquillizing
• coaxing
• ingratiating
• tranquilizing
• humoring
• gratifying
• indulging
• cajoling
• satiating
• hushing
• gladdening
• flattering
• quenching
• spoiling
• wheedling
• endearing (to)
• sating
• catering (to)
• coddling
• adulating
• pampering
• babying
• mollycoddling
• overpraising
• sweetening
• sweet-talking
• blarneying
• blandishing
• dulcifying
• soft-soaping

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• angering
• inflaming
• antagonizing
• getting
• bothering
• outraging
• enraging
• incensing
• infuriating
• crossing
• maddening
• aggravating
• riling
• irritating
• bugging
• irking
• provoking
• annoying
• rankling
• burning (up)
• ruffling
• roiling
• grating
• piquing
• exasperating
• iring
• chafing
• vexing
• putting out
• nettling
• harassing
• galling
• enflaming
• rousing
• persecuting
• pestering
• harrying
• agitating
• worrying
• upsetting
• disturbing
• insulting
• distressing
• fretting
• perturbing
• offending
• peeving
• slighting
• discomforting
• unsettling
• affronting
• unhinging