Antonyms of adj conciliatory

2 senses of conciliatory

Sense 1
compromising (vs. uncompromising), conciliatory, flexible -- (making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet")


Sense 2
conciliatory (vs. antagonistic), conciliative -- (intended to placate; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit")

antagonistic (vs. conciliatory) -- (arousing animosity or hostility; "his antagonistic brusqueness"; "Europe was antagonistic to the Unites States")
        => alienating -- (causing hostility or loss of friendliness; "her sudden alienating aloofness")

Similarity of adj conciliatory

2 senses of conciliatory

Sense 1
compromising (vs. uncompromising), conciliatory, flexible -- (making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet")
       => yielding -- (tending to give in or surrender or agree; "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"- V.I.Parrington)

Sense 2
conciliatory (vs. antagonistic), conciliative -- (intended to placate; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit")
       => appeasing (prenominal), placating, placative, placatory -- (intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures"; "an astonishingly placatory speech")
       => pacific -- (promoting peace; "the result of this pacific policy was that no troops were called up")
       => propitiative, propitiatory -- (intended to reconcile or appease; "sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture")
       => soft -- (willing to negotiate and compromise)

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