calmable

From calm +‎ -able.

calmable (comparative more calmable, superlative most calmable)

1. Able to be calmed.

   Antonym: uncalmable

   • 1967 May 29, Allen Ginsberg, “Allen Ginsberg [New York, NY] to Whom It May Concern [Portland, OR]”, in Bill Morgan, editor, The Letters of Allen Ginsberg, Philadelphia, Pa.: Da Capo Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 330:

     Such a great nonsensical flap has been made over the circumstances attending a poetry reading I gave at Portland State University on May 27, 1967, that I would like to add a few clear words and perhaps calm those curious who are calmable.

   • 1979, Mike Samuels, Nancy Samuels, “Emergency medicine”, in The Well Baby Book, New York, N.Y.: Summit Books, →ISBN, page 299:

     A parent can say, “I am here. . . . You are going to be all right. . . . You’ll be all better soon. . . . Your body is healing the hurt right now. . . . It’s getting better and better.” Children are very susceptible to suggestion after the shock of an accident, and they are calmable. Not only can children’s moods respond to positive suggestion, their bodies can actually respond at a physiological level.

   • 1981, Sudhir Kakar, “The Theme of Fusion—Moksha”, in The Inner World: A Psycho-analytic Study of Childhood and Society in India, 2nd edition, Delhi: Oxford University Press, published 1989 (5th impression), →ISBN, chapter II (The Hindu World Image), page 25:

     The yogis saw the regression that takes place in this phase as a necessary one in the service of the chitta, not the restless, dark and demonic chitta, but the calmable, effulgent and benign one containing altruistic drive representations through which the Upanishadic injunction of atmanam viddhi—‘Know the I’—can be fulfilled. The presence of a guru to guide and monitor this process is essential.

   • 1990, Ralph Schoenstein, “Down, Ralphie!”, in You Can’t Be Serious: Writing and Living American Humor, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 52:

     By the time that I was able to talk to Dan in Beverly Hills, I had decided that we would just have to ignore Carpenter and all her collapsible ladies, for we didn’t need her approval. Disney could build his own White House. When I told Dan about the way she had panicked, he said we would simply go to Washington and calm her down. “She doesn’t sound calmable,” I told him. “Dan, the woman sees English as a foreign language.”

   • 2011, Chris Lynch, “Night and Day”, in Angry Young Man, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster BFYR, →ISBN, page 89:

     Things calm down over toast. Most things are calmable with toast, I think, especially with the right marmalade.