what does placative mean?
PLACATIVE as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
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Usage Example(s)
- the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich
- placating (or placative) gestures
- an astonishingly placatory speech
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