conciliating
Soothing ruffled feathers
Conciliating is making peace or gaining goodwill, typically after conflict or disagreement.
Someone conciliating an angry customer works to soothe their frustration.
A conciliating gesture aims to reduce tension: His conciliating tone helped calm the room.
The word suggests active effort to win over or appease rather than passive friendliness.
Easing another's anger
- soothingReducing distress or discomfort
- pacifyingCalming someone agitated
- calmingInducing a settled state
- mollifyingReducing anger or hostility
assuaging · softening · disarming · propitiating · tempering · gentling · easing · quieting
Formally resolving a dispute
- negotiatingDiscussing to reach agreement
- intercedingAdvocating on another's behalf
- facilitatingMaking something simpler
- intermediatingFacilitating between two parties
brokering · bridging · go-between · peacemaking · settling · resolving · adjudicating · moderating
Coming back together
- healingRestoration of health
- restoringReturning to original condition
- mendingRestoring damaged items
- repairingRestoring broken items
unifying · accord · rapprochement · fence-mending · forgiveness · understanding · goodwill · cooperation
placating
Easing another's anger
- soothingReducing distress or discomfort
- pacifyingCalming someone agitated
- calmingInducing a settled state
mollifying · assuaging · softening · disarming · propitiating · tempering · gentling · easing · quieting · defusing
arbitrating
Formally resolving a dispute
- negotiatingDiscussing to reach agreement
- intercedingAdvocating on another's behalf
- facilitatingMaking something simpler
intermediating · brokering · bridging · go-between · peacemaking · settling · resolving · adjudicating · moderating · intervening
reuniting
Coming back together
repairing · unifying · accord · rapprochement · fence-mending · forgiveness · understanding · goodwill · cooperation · truce
- dispute resolutionmediation, mediating, arbitration, negotiating, compromise
conciliatingantagonizing
Deliberately causing hostility
provoking · aggravating · inciting · stirring up · inflaming
conciliatingantagonizing
Deliberately causing hostility
provoking · inflaming · infuriating · enraging · incensing
conciliatinghostile
Aggressively unfriendly
antagonistic · aggressive · combative · belligerent · inimical