Usually means: Atoning or conciliatory; appeasing anger.
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  1. propitiatory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. propitiatory: Merriam-Webster
  3. propitiatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. propitiatory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. propitiatory: Collins English Dictionary
  6. propitiatory: Vocabulary.com
  7. propitiatory: Wordnik
  8. propitiatory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. propitiatory: Wiktionary
  10. propitiatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Propitiatory, propitiatory: Dictionary.com
  12. Propitiatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. propitiatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. propitiatory: Rhymezone
  15. Propitiatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. propitiatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. propitiatory: FreeDictionary.org
  18. propitiatory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. propitiatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Intended to propitiate, reconcile, expiate or appease; conciliatory.

Similar:
propitiative, expiatory, expiative, conciliative, pacificatory, conciliant, appeasive, placatory, placable, propice, more...

Opposite:
appeasing, antagonistic, confrontational, hostile, unfriendly

Types:
appeasing, conciliatory, expiatory, palliative, mitigatory, reparatory, more...

Adjectives:
generous, only, first, other, daily, true, similar, special, grand, abject, little

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Similar:
propitiative, expiatory, expiative, conciliative, pacificatory, conciliant, appeasive, placatory, placable, propice, more...

Opposite:
appeasing, antagonistic, confrontational, hostile, unfriendly

Types:
appeasing, conciliatory, expiatory, palliative, mitigatory, reparatory, more...

Adjectives:
generous, only, first, other, daily, true, similar, special, grand, abject, little

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     white,     blue,     green, more...



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