Synonyms for placate
ˈpleɪ keɪt, ˈplæk eɪtpla·cate

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1. placateverb

   To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that he or she becomes content or at least no longer irate.

   Synonyms:
   mollify, appease, satisfy

   Antonyms:
   enrage

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 3 votes

1. pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntleverb

   cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

   "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

   Synonyms:
   mollify, conciliate, quell, gentle, relieve, lenify, stay, quench, allay, ennoble, settle, gruntle, palliate, accommodate, appease, pacify, temper, assuage, propitiate, alleviate, slake, make up, entitle, patch up, reconcile, season

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1. List of paraphrases for "placate":

   appease, assuage, pacify, allay, defuse, calm

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1. Lisa McClain:

   That’s money the Russians are using to fight the war in Ukraine, that could stop, and we could cripple them today, but Biden is too worried about placating to the progressives. I think we should placate to the Americans and the people of Ukraine.

2. Free Press Co-CEO Jessica Gonzalez:

   Instead of committing to a timeline to root out hate and disinformation on Facebook, the company's leaders delivered the same old talking points to try to placate us without meeting our demands, facebook approached our meeting today like it was nothing more than a PR exercise.

3. Charles King:

   Periodically over the course of the last four months, I have seriously questioned some of the things Dr. Birx has said when she's with the President or representing the President, there have been times when Birx has gone much further to placate the President than I think is reasonable and I just hope it doesn't hurt her reputation in the long term.

4. Josh Nye:

   We don't think this is the start of a full-on easing cycle; rather, these cuts are about providing a bit more accommodation to offset trade headwinds, fifty basis points of easing would fall short of what markets are currently pricing in over the next year, but should be enough to placate investors that are concerned monetary policy has become a bit too restrictive.

5. Walter Lippmann:

   Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.