" placatory "

1: tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostility;

  * e.g., " ... a placatory effort to improve relations with the townspeople, who were upset about the wild campus parties "

•  Synonyms : 

•  appeasing,

•  conciliating,

•  conciliatory,

•  disarming,

•  mollifying,

•  pacific,

•  pacifying,

•  peacemaking,

•  placating,

•  propitiatory

•  Antonyms : 

•  antagonizing

1: to lessen the anger or agitation of;

  * e.g., " ... attempted to placate the screaming child by offering him a cookie "

•  Synonyms : 

•  appease,

•  assuage,

•  conciliate,

•  disarm,

•  gentle,

•  mollify,

•  pacify,

•  propitiate

•  Antonyms : 

•  anger,

•  enrage,

•  incense,

•  inflame,

•  infuriate,

•  ire,

•  madden,

•  outrage