Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Easily calmed or pacified; tolerant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being placated or pacified; easy to be appeased; willing to forgive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective able to be easily
pacified - adjective
peaceable ; quiet
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective easily calmed or pacified
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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It is notorious that you may with impunity call a placable Frenchman
Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922
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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.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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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.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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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.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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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.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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Youth_ was a "placable" piece of foolery, which could give no annoyance to the worst of offenders by its innocent and indulgent banter.
Henrik Ibsen Edmund Gosse 1888
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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.
Henrik Ibsen Edmund Gosse 1888
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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.
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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.
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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.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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