reconcile

Verb

Meaning

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.

To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.

To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.

To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.

To become reconciled.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

conciliate settle appease harmonize harmonise accept fit combine accommodate resolve coordinate resign adjust submit adapt
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Antonyms

air separate vie cavil break conflict
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Hypernyms

concord set hold accept correct agree

Hyponyms

appease key propitiate make-peace

Related terms

conciliate

Phrases with the word

to reconcile reconcile to a loss reconcile differences reconcile oneself

Derivatives

reconciled reconciling

Examples

The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories Source: Internet

After some discussion we finally made up Source: Internet

harmonize one's goals with one's abilities Source: Internet

He resigned himself to his fate Source: Internet

According to him, those politicians can reconcile themselves on a drinking table within three minutes. Source: Internet

According to Samuel Angus (1925) the gnostic sectarians also sought to reconcile the individual to their own personal deification ( henosis ), making each individual God. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

reconcilable reconcilableness reconcilably reconcile differences reconcile oneself reconcile to a loss