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Adjective: conciliatory  kun'si-lee-u,to-ree [N. Amer], kun'si-lee-u-tree [Brit]
  1. Making or willing to make concessions
    "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the conciliatory Louis du Tillet";
    - compromising, flexible
     
  2. Intended to placate
    "a conciliatory visit";
    - conciliative

See also: appeasing, pacific, placating, placative, placatory, propitiative, propitiatory, soft, yielding

Antonym: inflexible

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