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What is the adjective for placating?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb placate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

placative
  1. (chiefly US) That placates; pacifying.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. placatory, appeasing, pacifying, peacemaking, mollifying, conciliatory, placating, pacific, conciliating, disarming, propitiatory, pacificatory, soothing, propitiative, calming, irenic, assuaging, reconciliatory, comforting, designed to please, peaceable, willing, placid, civil, quiet, yielding, calm, so as to pour oil on troubled waters, make-up, relaxing, diplomatic, neutral, untroubled, mediating, nonviolent, emollient, pacifist, satisfying, pleasing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Penrod's answer, like the look he lifted to the impressive stranger, was meek and placative.”
      “Mr. Lincoln's placative words did not placate for the reason that they completely ignored the Southern contention.”
placatory
  1. That placates; pacifying.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. conciliatory, appeasing, pacifying, peacemaking, mollifying, propitiatory, placating, pacific, conciliating, disarming, calming, pacificatory, soothing, irenic, propitiative, placative, comforting, designed to please, assuaging, reconciliatory, peaceable, relaxing, diplomatic, neutral, untroubled, mediating, nonviolent, emollient, appeasatory, pacifist, willing, placid, civil, quiet, yielding, calm, so as to pour oil on troubled waters, make-up, satisfying, pleasing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “She looked down at me with such a placatory and genuinely feminine smile I decided I'd been foolish to be offended.”
      “The stereotype of battered wives as fragile, passive, placatory and docile does not do justice to their actual role in marriage relationships.”
      “He's said nice, placatory things, and he's kept the peace, but we need more than that to drive the country forward.”
placatable
  1. Capable of being placated.
placated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of placate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. soothed, assuaged, mollified, pacified, appeased, calmed, conciliated, quietened, quieted, propitiated, tranquillised, tranquilized, gentled, disarmed, comforted, reconciled, sweetened, cheered, humoured, satisfied, pleased, stroked, humored, won over, calmed down, soft-pedalled, soft-pedaled, made peace, made peace with, made up, squared off, quietened down, played up to, poured oil on, poured oil on troubled waters, allayed, eased, stilled, relieved, quelled, subdued, mitigated, softened, composed, lulled, alleviated, palliated, cooled, settled, tempered … more
placating
  1. present participle of placate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. soothing, assuaging, mollifying, pacifying, appeasing, calming, conciliating, quietening, quieting, propitiating, tranquillising, tranquilizing, gentling, disarming, comforting, reconciling, sweetening, cheering, humouring, satisfying, pleasing, stroking, humoring, winning over, calming down, soft-pedalling, soft-pedaling, making peace, making peace with, making up, squaring off, quietening down, playing up to, pouring oil on, pouring oil on troubled waters, allaying, easing, stilling, relieving, quelling, subduing, mitigating, softening, composing, lulling, alleviating, palliating, cooling, settling, tempering … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “David put his hands up in a placating gesture.”
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