placable
/plak-uh-buhl, pley-kuh-/US // ˈplæk ə bəl, ˈpleɪ kə- //UK // (ˈplækəbəl) //
可安置的,可放置的,可容纳的,可安置
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : capable of being placated, pacified, or appeased; forgiving.
Examples
As a rule even the most cantankerous women are placable after afternoon tea.
To have both strong, but both selected: in the one, to be placable; in the other immovable.
It may be that Otto's death, which he must learn to-morrow, may make him more placable.
He had grown strangely tame and placable, and it was generally noticed that he looked older.
By means of this concession the placable creditors were able to bring the dissatisfied creditors to reason.
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