reconcile

reconcile is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.
3. transitive verb. To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.
4. transitive verb. To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.
5. intransitive verb. To become reconciled.
6. verb. bring into consonance or accord

   "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities"

   Synonyms: harmonise, harmonize

7. verb. make (one thing) compatible with (another)

   "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"

   Synonyms: accommodate, conciliate

8. verb. accept as inevitable

   "He resigned himself to his fate"

   Synonyms: resign, submit

9. verb. come to terms

   "After some discussion we finally made up"

   Synonyms: conciliate, settle

Synonyms

harmonise, harmonize, accommodate, conciliate, resign, submit, settle

Common word forms

reconciled, reconciler, reconciles, reconciling, reconcileless, reconcilement

Words from these letters

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