Adjective placating has 1 sense
  1. appeasing, placating, placative, placatory - tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures"; "an astonishingly placatory speech"
    Antonym: antagonistic (indirect, via conciliatory)
,Verb placate has 1 sense
  1. pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle - cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
    --1 is one way to calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still
    Derived form: noun placation1
    Sample sentence:
    The performance is likely to placate Sue
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