conciliatory
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Intended or likely to placate an opponent and reduce hostility.
He struck a conciliatory tone, acknowledging past grievances before setting out his own demands.
Law adjective
Intended to placate an opponent and ease a dispute toward resolution.
A conciliatory opening from counsel helped thaw the atmosphere before the mediation began.
Business adjective
Intended to placate or win goodwill and reduce hostility.
Her conciliatory opening remarks defused a room that had arrived expecting a fight.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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