appeasingly
With calming intent
Appeasingly describes doing something in a manner meant to calm, placate, or satisfy someone who is upset or demanding.
The word suggests an attempt to reduce tension or avoid conflict by giving in or making concessions.
She smiled appeasingly at her angry supervisor.
There's often a subtle implication of submission or weakness—trying to smooth things over rather than standing firm.
Reducing anger or hostility
- pacifyingCalming someone agitated
- propitiatingWinning favor through offerings
- conciliatingCalming hostile parties
- assuagingLessening intensity or severity
soothing · calming · placating · disarming · defusing · softening · gentling · smoothing
With respectful yielding
- obsequiouslyWith servile flattery
- servilelyIn subservient manner
- compliantlyIn an acquiescent manner
- meeklyIn docile manner
humbly · subserviently · fawningly · sycophantically · cap-in-hand · kowtowing · groveling · bowing
With careful discretion
- negotiatingDiscussing to reach agreement
- mediatingFacilitating conflict resolution
- conciliatoryMeant to placate
- ambassadorialOf official envoys
peacemaking · conflict-resolution · bridge-building · harmonizing · arbitrating · statesmanlike · delicately · carefully
In a consoling manner
- reassuringlyIn confidence-restoring fashion
- gentlyIn a mild manner
- softlyWith little volume
- tenderlyWith gentle care
soothingly · quietly · mildly · warmly · kindly · sympathetically · consolingly · lullingly
mollifying
Reducing anger or hostility
- pacifyingCalming someone agitated
- propitiatingWinning favor through offerings
- conciliatingCalming hostile parties
assuaging · soothing · calming · placating · disarming · defusing · softening · gentling · smoothing · reconciling
deferentially
With respectful yielding
- obsequiouslyWith servile flattery
- servilelyIn subservient manner
- compliantlyIn an acquiescent manner
meekly · humbly · subserviently · fawningly · sycophantically · cap-in-hand · kowtowing · groveling · bowing · capitulating
tactfully
With careful discretion
- negotiatingDiscussing to reach agreement
- mediatingFacilitating conflict resolution
- conciliatoryMeant to placate
ambassadorial · peacemaking · conflict-resolution · bridge-building · harmonizing · arbitrating · statesmanlike · delicately · carefully · judiciously
comfortingly
In a consoling manner
- reassuringlyIn confidence-restoring fashion
- gentlyIn a mild manner
- softlyWith little volume
tenderly · soothingly · quietly · mildly · warmly · kindly · sympathetically · consolingly · lullingly · tranquilizing
appeasinglyaggravatingly
In an irritating manner
provocatively · antagonistically · confrontationally · irritatingly · offensively
appeasinglydefiantly
In open resistance
demandingly · aggressively · assertively · domineeringly · commandingly