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reconcile
[ rek-uhn-sahyl ]
verb (used with object)
- to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired:
He was reconciled to his fate.
- to win over to friendliness; cause to become amicable:
to reconcile hostile persons.
Synonyms: placate, propitiate, pacify
- to compose or settle (a quarrel, dispute, etc.).
Antonyms: anger
- to bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent:
to reconcile differing statements;
to reconcile accounts.
Synonyms: harmonize
- to reconsecrate (a desecrated church, cemetery, etc.).
- to restore (an excommunicate or penitent) to communion in a church.
verb (used without object)
- to become reconciled.
reconcile
/ ˈrɛkənˌsaɪl; ˌrɛkənˌsɪlɪˈeɪʃən; -trɪ; ˌrɛkənˈsɪlɪətərɪ /
verb
- often passiveusually foll byto to make (oneself or another) no longer opposed; cause to acquiesce in something unpleasant
she reconciled herself to poverty
- to become friendly with (someone) after estrangement or to re-establish friendly relations between (two or more people)
- to settle (a quarrel or difference)
- to make (two apparently conflicting things) compatible or consistent with each other
- to reconsecrate (a desecrated church, etc)
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Derived Forms
- reconciliatory, adjective
- reconciliation, noun
- ˈreconˌciler, noun
- ˈreconˌcilement, noun
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Other Words From
- recon·cilement noun
- recon·ciler noun
- recon·ciling·ly adverb
- pre·recon·cile verb (used with object) prereconciled prereconciling
- pre·recon·cilement noun
- quasi-recon·ciled adjective
- un·recon·ciled adjective
- un·recon·ciling adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of reconcile1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of reconcile1
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Example Sentences
America presents two contradictory narratives that it struggles to reconcile.
Reconcile is a rapper from Houston, a city with a rich hip-hop legacy.
But Reconcile is from a slightly different arm of Houston hip-hop—more focused on spiritual triumph over the trap.
Efforts to reconcile these differences have been delayed and the issue remains disputed.
First Lady Mellie (Bellamy Young) and Fitz reconcile—because of the whole rape thing—and we learn the son is actually his.
I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.
But, of course, all that is impossible, and the thing is to reconcile them to the inevitable things they have to face.
Here, then, is sufficient to reconcile the women to Mahomet, who has not used them so hardly as he is said to have done.
But how are we to reconcile improbable facts related in a contradictory manner?
So Corydon had to reconcile herself to a house with a stove, and a stove-pipe that went through a hole in the wall!
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