adj
Meaning 1
Placid, peaceful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
placate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /pləˈkeɪt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /pleɪˈkeɪt/
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Canada, US: /ˈpleɪkeɪt/
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Canada, US: /pleɪˈkeɪt/
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Australian: /pləˈkeɪt/
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rhymes with -eɪt
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verb
Meaning 2
To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pacify, appease, assuage, soothe, conciliate, mollify, propitiate, satisfy
Antonyms: enrage
verb
Meaning 3
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She managed to mollify the angry customer
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, gentle, gruntle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still
History
Etymology
First attested in the late 17th century; borrowed from Latin plācātus, perfect passive participle of plācō (“appease, placate”, literally “smooth, smoothen”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more), ultimately thought to be from Proto-Indo-European *plāk- (“smooth, flat”), from *pele- (“broad, flat, plain”). Related to Latin placeō (“appease”), Old English flōh (“flat stone, chip”). More at please.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: هَدَّأَ (haddaʔa) — to calm
- Arabic: اِسْتَرْضَى (istarḍā) — to calm
- Armenian: հանգստացնել (hangstacʻnel) — to calm
- Bulgarian: успокоявам (uspokojavam) — to calm
- Bulgarian: омиротворявам (omirotvorjavam) — to calm
- Chinese Mandarin: 安撫 /安抚 (ānfǔ) — to calm
- Chinese Mandarin: 平息 (píngxí) — to calm
- Czech: uklidnit — to calm
- Czech: zklidnit — to calm
- Czech: utišit — to calm
- Dutch: kalmeren — to calm
- Dutch: bedaren — to calm
- Dutch: sussen — to calm
- Dutch: paaien — to calm
- Finnish: lepyttää — to calm
- Finnish: rauhoittaa — to calm
- French: apaiser — to calm
- French: calmer — to calm
- German: beschwichtigen — to calm
- German: besänftigen — to calm
- German: begütigen — to calm
- German: beruhigen — to calm
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fullafahjan) — to calm
- Greek: κατευνάζω (katevnázo) — to calm
- Hebrew: הרגיע (hirgía) — to calm
- Hungarian: kiengesztel — to calm
- Icelandic: róa — to calm
- Icelandic: sefa — to calm
- Icelandic: fróa — to calm
- Italian: placare — to calm
- Japanese: なだめる (nadameru) — to calm
- Khmer: កំសាន្ត (kɑmsaan) — to calm
- Latin: pācificō — to calm
- Māori: whakamārie — to calm
- Māori: whakamauru — to calm
- Portuguese: aplacar — to calm
- Russian: умиротворя́ть (umirotvorjátʹ) — to calm
- Russian: успока́ивать (uspokáivatʹ) — to calm
- Russian: унимать (unimatʹ) — to calm
- Russian: утихомиривать (utixomirivatʹ) — to calm
- Serbo-Croatian: umiriti — to calm
- Serbo-Croatian: умирити — to calm
- Serbo-Croatian: smiriti — to calm
- Serbo-Croatian: смирити — to calm
- Spanish: aplacar — to calm
- Swedish: blidka — to calm
- Thai: ปลอบโยน (bplòp yohn) — to calm
- Thai: ปลอบใจ (bplòp jai) — to calm
- Vietnamese: xoa dịu — to calm