Placate

Quick meaning: Placate is a verb meaning (transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.

Meaning

(transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.

More Meanings

1. (rare, obsolete) Placid, peaceful.

Example Sentences

When are you more placate and serene?

To-day a deity who should require bleeding sacrifices to placate him would be too sanguinary to be taken seriously.

They turned their shoulders to her most savage slashes, and with wagging tails and mincing steps strove to placate her wrath.

The gleam of the light on the paper placated his professional anger, and he wrote rapidly, the final dash of his signature curling the paper up in a triangular tear.

Word Forms

• placates
• placating
• placated

Synonyms for placate

Depending on context, synonyms include pacify, appease, assuage, soothe, conciliate, mollify.

Antonyms for placate

Common opposites include enrage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pacify, appease, lenify, mollify, assuage, conciliate.

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