different between querulous vs tactable

English

From Old French querelos, from Late Latin querul?sus, from Latin querulus, from queror (“I complain”).

querulous (comparative more querulous, superlative most querulous)

Often complaining; suggesting a complaint in expression; fretful, whining.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
  The nights were now cold, gemmed with a multitude of bright stars, uncanny with the querulous wail of coyotes and the occasional deep voices of wolves.

tactable (not comparable)

(obsolete) Capable of being touched; tangible.
- 1624, Philip Massinger, The Parliament of Love
  they [women] being created to be both tractable and tactable

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