Adjective
- 1. compromising (vs. uncompromising), conciliatory, flexible, yielding
- usage: making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
- 2. conciliatory (vs. antagonistic), conciliative, appeasing(prenominal), placating, placative, placatory, pacific, propitiative, propitiatory, soft
- usage: intended to placate; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit"
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