All propitiate synonyms
pro·pi·ti·ate
P p adjective propitiate
- mollifying — Present participle of mollify.
- assuaging — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- expiative — That serves to expiate.
- expiatory — Of or pertaining to expiation.
- atonable — Capable of being atoned for.
- expiable — Capable of being expiated or atoned for.
verb propitiate
- ante up — If you ante up an amount of money, you pay your share, sometimes unwillingly.
- lay back — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- cough up — If you cough up an amount of money, you pay or spend that amount, usually when you would prefer not to.
- make nice — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- humouring — humor.
- do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- assuage — If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
- gentling — Present participle of gentle.
- kiss and make up — be reconciled
- comp — Comp is short for compensation.
- comping — a ticket, book, service, etc., provided free of charge to specially chosen recipients.
- laid back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
- mollify — to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
- comped — a ticket, book, service, etc., provided free of charge to specially chosen recipients.
- make amends — reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
- dulcify — to make more agreeable; mollify; appease.
- counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
- intermediating — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
- make good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- make peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- appease — If you try to appease someone, you try to stop them from being angry by giving them what they want.
- fill the bill — a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.
- honied — containing, consisting of, or resembling honey: honeyed drinks.
- atone — If you atone for something that you have done, you do something to show that you are sorry you did it.
- make the grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- make for — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- mediate — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
adj propitiate
- conciliative — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
- conciliatory — When you are conciliatory in your actions or behaviour, you show that you are willing to end a disagreement with someone.