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placable adjective old-fashionedformaluk /ˈplæk.ə.bəl/ us /ˈplæk.ə.bəl/ If you describe a person as placable, you mean that it is easy to keep them calm when they start to become angry or upset: He was a placable fellow with a mild temper. I stepped in and took her to one side, and she immediately became placable. She could never be described as a kind or placable sort of woman. The king had a generous and placable nature. She believed that the gods were always placable and that they treated everyone with love. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Calm and relaxed (as) cool as a cucumberidiom at (your) leisureidiom be at peace with the worldidiom biddable calmly easy come, easy goidiom easy-going equilibrium fluidly free-flowing non-hysterical peaceably peacefully peacefulness placid uninhibited unpressured unpressurized unruffled unshockable
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