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placid

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈplæsɪd/
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/ˈplæsɪd/ · [ˈpʰlæsɪd] · /ˈplæsəd/ · [ˈpʰlæsəd]

Definition of placid

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil
    “a placid disposition”
    “a placid lake”
    “April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration.”
    “The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?”
    “[I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.”
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adj

  1. calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil
    “a placid disposition”
    “a placid lake”
    “April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration.”
    “The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?”
    “[I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.”

name

  1. An unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas, USA, originally named for its tranquility.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Latin placeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin placiduslbor. French placide English placid Borrowed from French placide, from Latin placidus (“peaceful, calm, placid”), from placeō (“please, satisfy”).

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