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placid
[ plas-id ]
adjective
placid waters;
a placid temperament.
- showing lack of energy or concern:
It is difficult to understand her relatively placid acceptance of the truth and its impact on her future.
Emotions ebbed from anger into placid resignation with the passage of time.
placid
/ pləˈsɪdɪtɪ; ˈplæsɪd /
adjective
- having a calm appearance or nature
Derived Forms
- placidity, noun
- ˈplacidly, adverb
Other Words From
- pla·cid·i·ty [pl, uh, -, sid, -i-tee], plac·id·ness [plas, -id-nis], noun
- plac·id·ly adverb
- un·plac·id adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of placid1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
They would speak up, but in tones still soft and placid; and Spahn often overheard them describing him as a “beautiful person.”
Ellie Black rouses quietly to consciousness at around 3, her eyes unfocused, mind placid.
Underneath the most placid waters, there are vicious currents and tides, and underwater volcanoes that are constantly erupting.
His face immediately shifted out of the placid, guarded, friendliness of the Scheduled Speaker into ambroad, welcoming smile.
And I long for the placid days when all I worried about were jackhammers, Halal carts and clueless tourists on rental bikes.
Mrs. Newbolt was looking away toward the hills, a dreamy cast in her placid face.
The baby had thrived; as placid, laughing a little thing as if its mother had never known sorrow.
Frulein Timm belongs to the single sisterhood, but is one of the fresh and placid kind, and as neat as wax.
They mostly wore the placid expression of folks engaged in business affairs instead of the worried look of pleasure-seekers.
The old lady glanced up from her work; her placid face wore a look of unusual serenity.
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