conciliatory
intended to bring people together or reduce hostility
Roots
Other words with the concili root
- conciliate: to win over, soothe, or bring into agreement
- conciliation: process of restoring agreement or goodwill
- conciliator: person who helps restore agreement
- reconcile: to restore friendly relations or make things consistent
- reconciliation: restoration of agreement, friendship, or consistency
Conciliatory speech tries to pull the room back into one piece.
Her conciliatory tone helped the two teams return to the problem instead of the insult.
Conciliatory belongs with conciliate and reconcile, not with a generic synonym cloud for calm. The structure is social repair: separated people are brought back toward agreement.