placable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- placability noun
- placableness noun
- placably adverb
Etymology
Origin of placable
1490–1500; < Old French < Latin plācābilis. See placate 1, -able
Vocabulary lists containing placable
Example Sentences
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Poe's childhood is a crystal ball wherein the seer discovers an im- placable inferiority feeling fastened upon the sensitive orphan son of an itinerant actress and a disinherited Baltimore mooncalf.
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Much of Laski's audience belonged to the placable Left�New Dealers who preached a muddled "middle way" for its own sake, without much effort to formulate principles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable.
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In his stories, fate is clearly placable, but his heroes never get the hang of it.
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From the same work we quote the following, which shows that though ordinarily placid and placable the stork can cherish the feeling of revenge.
From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various
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