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Definition: Conciliating |
ConciliatingAdjective1. Overcoming animosity or hostility; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conciliating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonyms: ConciliatingSynonyms: conciliative (adj), conciliatory (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: antagonizing (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Conciliating |
| English words defined with "conciliating": conciliative, conciliatory. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "conciliating": Conciliate. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Commander-in-Chief conciliating the soldier's votes on the battle field. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Washington Irving | Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Conciliating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Conciliating" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "conciliating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 调解 (Conciliate, Conciliated, intercede, Interceded, Interceding). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | beschwichtigend (allaying, conciliatory, pacifying, placating, placatory). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | kiengesztelő (expiatory, placating, propitiative, propitiator). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | onciliatingcay conciliant (compromising, conciliative, conciliatory, facile, forgiving). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Conciliating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conciliatingly, concilliating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-g-i-i-i-l-n-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: calcitonin. | |
-3 letters: anticling, calcining, ciliation, clinician, clintonia, incognita, nicotinic. | |
-4 letters: aconitic, cationic, coacting, iconical, ignition, inaction, inciting, inlacing, intaglio, lactonic, ligation, lignitic, locating, logician, noticing, oiticica. | |
-5 letters: aclinic, actinic, actinon, alining, anionic, antilog, antlion, atoning, cannoli, canonic, canting, catling, cloning, coaling, coating, coiling, coining, colicin, colitic, conical, contain, initial, intagli, laconic, lancing, loaning, nailing. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-g-i-i-i-l-n-n-o-t" | |
+3 letters: anticholinergic, occidentalizing. | |
+4 letters: anticholinergics. | |
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