Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

conciliatory

/kənˈsɪl.i.əˌtɔɹ.i/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English

Syllables: con-cil-ia-to-ry
IPA: /kənˈsɪl.i.əˌtɔɹ.i/

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

6

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.

Example Sentences

"Lady Anne checked herself, for she heard a carriage stop at the door, and her daughters enter the house; and she had not made up her mind as to the turn she should give to their conciliatory visit."
"Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities."

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /kənˈsɪl.i.əˌtɔɹ.i/

Inflected Forms

more conciliatory (comparative) most conciliatory (superlative)

Derived Forms

conciliatorily conciliatoriness nonconciliatory

Synonyms

conciliative compromising flexible

Antonyms

unconciliatory

Questions

How do you pronounce conciliatory?: The recorded pronunciation is /kənˈsɪl.i.əˌtɔɹ.i/.
What does conciliatory mean?: Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.

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