conciliatory
Aimed at reconciliation
Conciliatory describes words or actions intended to make peace or reduce hostility: a conciliatory gesture, a conciliatory tone.
Someone being conciliatory is trying to appease an angry party or smooth over conflict rather than escalate it.
The word often implies a willingness to compromise or acknowledge fault: She made conciliatory remarks after the heated exchange.
Calming someone agitated
- appeasingPacifying through concessions
- mollifyingReducing anger or hostility
- placatingEasing another's anger
- mediatingFacilitating conflict resolution
reconciling · diplomatic · peaceable · harmonizing · olive-branch · bridge-building · fence-mending · conflict-resolution
Inducing a settled state
- reassuringRestoring calm or confidence
- gentleSoft and kind
- disarmingAllaying suspicion through warmth
- unthreateningNot likely to harm
mild · temperate · soft-spoken · measured · tactful · emollient · assuaging · alleviating
Feeling sorrow over actions
- remorsefulFeeling guilt for wrongdoing
- contriteFeeling guilt over misdeeds
- penitentOne showing remorse
- repentantFeeling sorrow for misdeeds
sorry · rueful · atonement · redemptive · expiatory · reparative · compunctious · propitiatory
Warmly friendly manner
- amicablePeacefully cooperative in manner
- warmModerately heated, or friendly
- genialPleasantly warm-mannered
- graciousPleasantly kind and courteous
affable · good-natured · welcoming · kindly · benevolent · sympathetic · understanding · approachable
Willing to help others
- compliantYielding to others' wishes
- amenableWilling to comply
- flexibleAble to bend freely
- acquiescentAccepting without resistance
deferential · obliging · cooperative · tractable · concessive · compromising · relenting · capitulating
pacifying
Calming someone agitated
- appeasingPacifying through concessions
- mollifyingReducing anger or hostility
- placatingEasing another's anger
mediating · reconciling · diplomatic · peaceable · harmonizing · olive-branch · bridge-building · fence-mending · conflict-resolution · negotiating
calming
Inducing a settled state
- reassuringRestoring calm or confidence
- gentleSoft and kind
- disarmingAllaying suspicion through warmth
unthreatening · mild · temperate · soft-spoken · measured · tactful · emollient · assuaging · alleviating · palliative
regretful
Feeling sorrow over actions
- remorsefulFeeling guilt for wrongdoing
- contriteFeeling guilt over misdeeds
- penitentOne showing remorse
repentant · sorry · rueful · atonement · redemptive · expiatory · reparative · compunctious · propitiatory · humble-pie
cordial
Warmly friendly manner
- amicablePeacefully cooperative in manner
- warmModerately heated, or friendly
- genialPleasantly warm-mannered
gracious · affable · good-natured · welcoming · kindly · benevolent · sympathetic · understanding · approachable · congenial
accommodating
Willing to help others
acquiescent · deferential · obliging · cooperative · tractable · concessive · compromising · relenting · capitulating · bending
- gentlegentle, mild, soft, tender, meek
- confrontation styleaggressive, passive, assertive, avoidant, diplomatic
- attitudespositive, negative, ambition, apathy, curiosity
- cautioncareful, be careful, cautious, caution, watch out
- positive traitskindness, honesty, patience, generosity, compassion
- debate tacticsexaggeration, appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, logical fallacy, straw man
conciliatoryantagonistic
Actively opposed or hostile
combative · confrontational · belligerent · hostile · bellicose
conciliatoryabrasive
Rough enough to erode
aggravating · antagonizing · alienating · irritating · exasperating