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Definition: Placate |
PlacateVerb1. Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify her angry boss". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "placate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
Synonyms: PlacateSynonyms: appease (v), assuage (v), conciliate (v), gentle (v), gruntle (v), lenify (v), mollify (v), pacify (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Forgiveness | Beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon; Noun: conciliate, propitiate, placate; make up a quarrel; (pacify); let the wound heal. |
Pacification | Verb: pacify, tranquilize, compose; allay; (moderate); reconcile, propitiate, placate, conciliate, meet halfway, hold out the olive branch, heal the breach, make peace, restore harmony, bring to terms. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Placate |
| English words defined with "placate": implacable ♦ Placated. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "placate": Placable. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Purr; meow; content; rumble; appease; bewitch; captivate; charm; delight; enrapture; gladden; gratify; humor; indulge; make happy; mollify; placate; reconcile; satisfy; suffice; thrill; tickle; please; feline. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Madagascar | But these and other political reforms--like the elimination of press censorship in 1989 and the formation of more political parties in 1990--were insufficient to placate a growing opposition force known as Hery Velona or "Active Forces," centered in the capital city and the surrounding high plateau. (references) |
Kiribati | The government's attempts to placate the Banabans include several special provisions in the constitution, such as the designation of a Banaban seat in the legislature and the return of land previously acquired by the government for phosphate mining. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | According to one NGO, the state ministry of Orang Asli Affairs later gave out cash compensation to placate the protesters. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Al Hunt | Mr. Leader, your Republican critics claim on a number of measures you were bottling them up in order to placate Democratic interest groups. Let me get your response on a few specifics. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Placate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 95.50% of the time. "Placate" is used about 111 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 (infinitive) | 95.5% | 106 | 31,637 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.5% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 111 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
placate | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "placate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qetësoj (allay, appease, assuage, balsam, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, conciliate, cool down, ease, gentle, hush, lull, mollify, pacificate, pacify, palliate, propitiate, quiet, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, soften, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize), fashit. (various references) | |
Arabic | هدأ (allay, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, calm down, cool, die down, dust, ease, hush, keep quiet, lull, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, quench, quieten, relieve, rest, salve, settle, settle down, simmer, smooth, sober, soothe, stay, steady, still, subside, supple, sweeten, tranquillize), إسترضى (appease, conciliate, propitiate, reconcile). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | успокоявам (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, compose, conciliate, cool, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, mollify, pacify, palliate, quiet, quiet down, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, silence, sleek, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize, unbend), умиротворявам (appease, pacify), сдобрявам (accommodate, atone, reconcile), предразполагам (bias, dispose, incline, ingratiate, predispose, prepossess), помирявам (accommodate, appease, bring together, compose, heal, reconcile). (various references) | |
Chinese | 安' (appease, pacify). (various references) | |
Czech | usmířit (atone, propitiate), uklidnit (appease, becalm, calm, quell, reassure, relax, set at ease, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize). (various references) | |
Farsi | تسکین دادن (Appease, Mitigate, Pacify, Palliate, Propitiate, Quell, Salve, Smooth), ارام کردن (Acquiesce, Allay, Alleviate, Appease, Assuage, Conciliate, Cool, Gentle, Lull, Pacify, Quiet, Silence, Smooth, Solace, Still), اشتی کردن . (various references) | |
French | calmer, apaiser. (various references) | |
German | beschwichtigen (appease, assuage, calm down, conciliate, hush, mollify, pacify, soothe, to appease, to conciliate, to pacify). (various references) | |
Greek | καταπραΰνω (alleviate, assuage, ease, mitigate, relieve, soothe), καθησυχάζω (appease, comfort, quieten, reassure, still, tranquilize), μαλακώνω (relent, smooth, soften, soothe, temper), ειρηνεύω (pacify), εξευμενίζω (propitiate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לפיס (appease, conciliate, make peace, mollify, pacify, propitiate, reconcile, soothe). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kiengesztel (expiate, propitiate, to conciliate, to placate, to propitiate), kibékít (conciliate, pacify, reconcile, to accommodate, to conciliate, to pacify, to placate, to reconcile). (various references) | |
Italian | placare (appease, calm, calm down, pacify, quiet, quieten, relent, soften, soothe, still), pacare. (various references) | |
Manx | cur shee er (appease, pacify). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acateplay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | subornar (boodle, bribe, buy off, grease, nobble, palm, suborn), conciliar (arrange, attemper, conciliate, harmonize, reconcile), aplacar (appease, lay, mollify, propitiate), apaziguar (appease, make peace, mollify, pacify, propitiate, quiet), acalmar (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm down, cool, ease, hush, lay, lull, mollify, pacify, quiet, relieve, resettle, salve, settle, simmer down, slow down, smooth, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize). (various references) | |
Romanian | pacifica (pacify), împãca (adjust, agree, comfort, conciliate, propitiate, reconcile). (various references) | |
Russian | умиротворять (apease, appease, conciliate, pacificate, pacify). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | umiriti (appease, attemper, grow quiet, pacify, palliate, quieten, soothe, tranquilize), stišati (becalm, calm, mollify, pacify, quiet, soothe, tranquilize). (various references) | |
Spanish | aplacar (appease, propitiate, quench, satisfy). (various references) | |
Swedish | försona (accommodate, atone for, conciliate, make it up, reconcile), blidka (appease, conciliate, propitiate, sweeten). (various references) | |
Turkish | yatıştırmak (abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, comfort, compose, conciliate, defuse, disarm, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, propitiate, quell, quiet, quieten, remit, salve, sedate, settle, smooth down, smother up, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), sakinleştirmek (allay, appease, becalm, calm, hush, pacify, quiet, smooth, smooth down, soothe, steady, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), gönlünü almak (appease, blandish, coax, conciliate, mollify, propitiate, soften). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | умиротворювати, задобрювати (coax), примиряти (accommodate, appease, conciliate). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conplacet, lenieris, lenietur, lenior, lenirent, lenis, placabit, placabitur, placabo, placabor, placandum, placare, placari, placati, placationem, placatus, placatusque, placavi, placavit, placent, placere, places, placet, placetur, placor, placorem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "placate": placated, placater, placaters, placates. (additional references) | |
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"Placate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alacatel, lacate, Pacare, Pacitti, palcate, pallasite, placare, placater, placatre, placeat, Placeth, placetne, placiate, placite, placits, placode, plac't, placue, playcare, playcate, pleycate, pliate, plicare, plicata. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "placate" (pronounced plā"kāt) |
| 4 | -ā" k ā t | vacate. |
| 3 | -k ā t | dislocate, reallocate, relocate, vindicate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-p-t" | |
-1 letter: acetal, caplet, palace, palate, placet. | |
-2 letters: aceta, alate, apace, clapt, cleat, clept, eclat, epact, leapt, lepta, palea, palet, petal, place, plate, pleat, tepal. | |
-3 letters: acta, alae, alec, atap, cape, cate, celt, clap, lace, late, leap, lept, paca, pace, pact, pale, pate, peal, peat, pelt, plat, plea, tace, tael, tala, talc, tale, tapa, tape. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-p-t" | |
+1 letter: placated, placater, placates, placenta. | |
+2 letters: acropetal, afterclap, analeptic, apiculate, applecart, aspectual, caliphate, capablest, catalepsy, cataplexy, faceplate, placaters, placative, placentae, placental, placentas, playacted. | |
+3 letters: acceptable, acceptably, afterclaps, alphabetic, altarpiece, analeptics, antechapel, apothecial, applecarts, archetypal, caliphates, campestral, cantaloupe, capitalise, capitalize, capitulate, capsulated, carpellate, cataleptic, catapulted, faceplates, metacarpal, paclitaxel, paniculate, pathetical, placentals. | |
+4 letters: acropetally, altarpieces, antechapels, aphetically, applicative, aseptically, autocephaly, campanulate, cantaloupes, capitalised, capitalises, capitalized, capitalizes, capitulated, capitulates, catalepsies, cataleptics, cataplexies, caterpillar, encapsulate, epithalamic, malpractice, marketplace, metacarpals, metaplastic, paclitaxels, particulate, practicable, spectacular. | |
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