RECONCILED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reconciled mean? 

• RECONCILED (adjective)
  The adjective RECONCILED has 1 sense:

1. made compatible or consistent

  Familiarity information: RECONCILED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECONCILED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made compatible or consistent

Similar:

consistent ((sometimes followed by 'with') in agreement or consistent or reliable)

 Context examples 

Mutual recrimination passed between them: they parted in anger, and were never reconciled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a long time before she became at all reconciled to the idea of so unsuitable a match.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Woodhouse could not be soon reconciled; but the worst was overcome, the idea was given; time and continual repetition must do the rest.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Settle your wig, Jo, and tell me if I shall telegraph to your mother, or do anything? asked Laurie, who never had been reconciled to the loss of his friend's one beauty.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“When we had comparatively reconciled Mrs. Crewler to it, we had to break it to Sarah. You recollect my mentioning Sarah, as the one that has something the matter with her spine?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

However, when she had a while seen my behaviour, and how well I observed the signs her husband made, she was soon reconciled, and by degrees grew extremely tender of me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She seems somehow more reconciled; or else the very subject seems to have become repugnant to her, for when any accidental allusion is made she actually shudders.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Miss Crawford, however, with renewed animation, soon went on—I am conscious of being far better reconciled to a country residence than I had ever expected to be.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

After that, I suppose, I WAS wrong in remaining so much in Sussex, and the arguments with which I reconciled myself to the expediency of it, were no better than these:—The danger is my own; I am doing no injury to anybody but myself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Anne did not shrink from it; on the contrary, she truly felt as she said, in observing—I think you are very likely to suffer the most of the two; your feelings are less reconciled to the change than mine.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)