placating

Definitions

The act of making someone less angry or hostile; appeasing.

The process of pacifying or soothing someone through conciliatory gestures.

Examples

The manager spent the entire afternoon placating the angry customers who were upset about the shipping delays.

She offered a small gift as a way of placating her younger brother after their argument.

Synonyms

appeasing conciliatory mollifying pacifying soothing propitiating assuaging

Antonyms

provoking aggravating inciting agitating inflaming exasperating antagonizing