Placable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Placable is an adjective meaning Able to be easily pacified; quick to forgive.
Meaning
Able to be easily pacified; quick to forgive.
More Meanings
- Peaceable; quiet.
- (obsolete) Having the effect of pacifying, appeasing or pleasing.
Example Sentences
She waited the table with a heavy placable nonchalance, like a performing cow […]
to be fortunate without the grudge of enuy is the signe of a most quiet, peaceable, & placable man:
Rachel was on the phone in the drawing room, talking to Gerald in Westminster, and seemed to be getting the reassurances she needed; she was oddly placable.
Essex, who was placable, as well as hasty and passionate, was soon appeased, and both received Raleigh into favour, and restored the other officers to their command.
Synonyms for placable
Depending on context, synonyms include conciliable, mitigable, appeasable.
Antonyms for placable
Common opposites include implacable.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include appeasable, mitigable, conciliable, pacable, placatable, pacifiable.
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