Overview of verb appease

The verb appease has 3 senses

• pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle -- (cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer")


• quell, stay, appease -- (overcome or allay; "quell my hunger")


• propitiate, appease -- (make peace with)

Overview of adj appeasing

The adj appeasing has 1 sense

• appeasing, 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")