Word Meanings - PROPITIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate. Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROPITIATE)

• Conciliate
• Win
• gain
• enlist
• pacify
• make friendly
• reconcile
• propitiate
• Reconcile
• Unite
• conciliate
• harmonize
• adjust
• adapt
• suit
• reunite

Related words: (words related to PROPITIATE)

• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• ADAPTNESS
  Adaptedness.
• REUNITEDLY
  In a reunited manner.
• CONCILIATE
  To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was
• RECONCILE
  1. To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled. Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. Dryden. We pray
• ADAPTIVE
  Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
• HARMONIZE
  1. To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize. 2. To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations. 3. To agree in vocal or musical
• ADAPT
  Fitted; suited. Swift.
• ADAPTATION
  1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.
• ADJUSTING PLANE; ADJUSTING SURFACE
  A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.
• ADAPTORIAL
  Adaptive.
• ADAPTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
• ADAPTER
  A connecting tube; an adopter. (more info) 1. One who adapts.
• UNITEDLY
  In an united manner. Dryden.
• REUNITE
  To unite again; to join after separation or variance. Shak.
• UNITE
  1. To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together. 2. To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition.
• ENLIST
  1. To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war. 2. To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.
• REENLISTMENT
  A renewed enlistment.
• CAPACIFY
  To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
• MISADJUSTMENT
  Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
• IRRECONCILEMENT
  The state or quality of being unreconciled; disagreement.
• READJUSTMENT
  A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
• ALUNITE
  Alum stone.
• READJUST
  To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
• PREADJUSTMENT
  Previous adjustment.
• UNFRIENDLY
  1. Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor. 2. Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health. -- Un*friend"li*ness, n.
• BRAUNITE
  A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.
• PREMUNITE
  To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection. Fotherby.