placatable

Able to calm

Placatable describes someone or something capable of being calmed, appeased, or satisfied after being angered or upset.

A placatable person can be mollified with the right words or gestures: She was furious, but ultimately placatable once he apologized.

The opposite, implacable, describes someone whose anger cannot be soothed.

appeasable

pacifiable

Able to be calmed

calming · disarming · manageable · tamable · reconcilable · winnable · satisfiable · acquiescent · amenable · compliant

cooperative

agreeable

Pleasantly cooperative

compromising · negotiable · workable · collaborative · harmonious · amicable · congenial · easy-going · good-natured · obliging

Opposites
ability to be appeased or calmed

placatableimplacable

Incapable of being pacified

unappeasable · inconsolable · irreconcilable · inexorable · intractable

manageability or compliance

placatableintractable

Impossible to manage

obstinate · recalcitrant · refractory · ungovernable · uncontrollable

Family

placate, placated, placating, placation, placatory, implacable, implacably, placid, placidly

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