soothable
adjEtymology From soothe + -able.
1
Capable of being soothed.
- For example, caregiver reactions may be quite different for a highly irritable, highly soothable child, as compared to an equally highly irritable child who is not soothable.2009, J. Gavin Bremner, Alan Fogel, Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, page 486:
- Derived terms
- unsoothable