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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
The Daily Wire reported on Friday that Fema staff had been checking on homes in Lake Placid when they were ordered to skip properties that had yard signs supporting the Republican candidate.
Toller said he hoped for a placid election night, but law enforcement was planning patrols and “we have to be prepared for everything.”
As its title character embarks on a gender transition that whisks her away from her violent drug-dealing past and into a placid domestic future, director Jacques Audiard concocts a dizzying Spanish-language musical whose outward bombastic flair anchors an intimate focus on the inner lives of women in contemporary Mexico.
The placid nature of the Multan surface made batting look easy at times in the first Test - well, if you came from Yorkshire that is!
For all the talk of a green pitch, the surface was shaved just before play to leave a placid, run-filled batting paradise.
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