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placid

[ plas-id ]

adjective

  1. pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed:

    placid waters;

    a placid temperament.

  2. 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

  1. having a calm appearance or nature
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • placidity, noun
  • ˈplacidly, adverb
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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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of placid1

First recorded in 1620–30; from Latin placidus “calm, quiet,” akin to placēre “to seem good, please” (originally, “to calm”); please, -id 4
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Word History and Origins

Origin of placid1

C17: from Latin placidus peaceful; related to placēre to please
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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.

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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!

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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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