Placable

Word PLACABLE
Character 8
Hyphenation pla ca ble
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Placable"

What do we mean by placable?

Easily calmed or pacified; tolerant. adjective

Capable of being placated or pacified; easy to be appeased; willing to forgive.

Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone. adjective

Able to be easily pacified adjective

Peaceable; quiet adjective

Easily calmed or pacified adjective

Able to be easily pacified; quick to forgive.

Peaceable; quiet.

Having the effect of pacifying, appeasing or pleasing.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Placable

The word "placable" in example sentences

It is notorious that you may with impunity call a placable Frenchman ❋ Clive Bell (1922)

Oddly enough, he thought that this, too, was to be a "placable" play, written to amuse and stimulate, but calculated to wound nobody's feelings. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Oddly enough, Ibsen believed, or pretended to believe, that The League of Youth was a "placable" piece of foolery, which could give no annoyance to the worst of offenders by its innocent and indulgent banter. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Youth_ was a "placable" piece of foolery, which could give no annoyance to the worst of offenders by its innocent and indulgent banter. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

When people are feeling friendly and placable, they think one sort of thing; when they are feeling angry or hostile, they think either something totally different or the same thing with a different intensity: when they feel friendly to the man who comes before them for judgement, they regard him as having done little wrong, if any; when they feel hostile, they take the opposite view. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ravenswood pleaded, apologised, and even kneeled, to appease her displeasure; and Lucy, as placable as she was single-hearted, readily forgave the offence which his doubts had implied. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The placable monarch soon forgave his young guest the want of complaisance with which he had eschewed to listen to his compositions; and Arthur speedily found, that to apologize for his want of breeding in that particular, was likely to lead to a great deal more rehearsing than he could find patience to tolerate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She was by nature mild, pensive, and contemplative, gentle in disposition, and most placable when accidentally offended; but still she was of a retired and reserved habit, and shunned to mix in ordinary sports, even — when the rare occurrence of a fair or wake gave her an opportunity of mingling with companions of her own age. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Still, I was relieved to get downstairs and find it was just one of the regular neighborhood winos, a placable fellow whom I have escorted out before with no hard feelings. ❋ Unknown (2008)

By means of this concession the placable creditors were able to bring the dissatisfied creditors to reason. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I drew Joe away, and he immediately became placable; merely stating to me, in an obliging manner and as a polite expostulatory notice to any one whom it might happen to concern, that he were not ❋ Unknown (2007)

Miss Rebecca was not, then, in the least kind or placable. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The placable and soft-hearted Briggs speechlessly pushed out her hand at this appeal; but she felt the desertion most keenly for all that, and bitterly, bitterly moaned the fickleness of her Matilda. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She was unhappily passionate; but was the most placable of her sex. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I have very seldom heard even the most gentle and placable woman speak without ❋ Unknown (2006)

When Barnes Newcome thinks fit he can be perfectly placable in his demeanour and delicate in his conduct. ❋ Unknown (2006)

No man can bear less malice than I do; and, when I have once carried my point, I am one of the most placable creatures in the world. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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