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placid en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• [ˈpʰlæsɪd] weak vowel distinction
• /ˈplæsɪd/ weak vowel distinction
• (US) audio
• [ˈpʰlæsəd] weak vowel merger
• /ˈplæsəd/ weak vowel merger

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”).

Meanings

1. calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil
   • 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. 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 9, in Jane Eyre, HTML edition:
   • 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? 1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224:
   • a placid disposition
   • [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. 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
   • a placid lake

Forms

Deriveds

placidly · placidity · Placidyl · placidness · unplacid · Lake Placid

Relateds

placate · placable

Synonyms

laid-back · still · serene · peaceful · serene · unexcited · tranquil · steady · unfazed · unruffled · equable · unflappable · relaxed · peaceable · collected · imperturbable · unruffable · mellow · pacific · quiescent · roolie · level-headed · unflustered · cool-headed · calm · even-keeled · quiet · composed · equanimous · untumultuous · phlegmatic · sedate · even-tempered · equanimitable · pacate · placid · cool-headed · unperturbable · even-minded

Translations (49)

pl łagodny (calm and quiet; peaceful) · ro liniștit (calm and quiet; peaceful) · fi tyyni (calm and quiet; peaceful) · it placido (calm and quiet; peaceful) · fi rauhallinen (calm and quiet; peaceful) · ro placid (calm and quiet; peaceful) · mi mākoha (calm and quiet; peaceful) · ro calm (calm and quiet; peaceful) · cs tichý (calm and quiet; peaceful) · nl rustig (calm and quiet; peaceful) · sv lugn (calm and quiet; peaceful) · nl vreedzaam (calm and quiet; peaceful) · cs klidný (calm and quiet; peaceful) · zza vınderde (calm and quiet; peaceful) · de ruhig (calm and quiet; peaceful) · bg ведър (calm and quiet; peaceful) · pt tranquilo (calm and quiet; peaceful) · ga séimh (calm and quiet; peaceful) · scn pràzitu (calm and quiet; peaceful) · mi māhuruhuru (calm and quiet; peaceful) · tr sakin (calm and quiet; peaceful) · sv stilla (calm and quiet; peaceful) · ru ми́рный (calm and quiet; peaceful) · ja 平静な (calm and quiet; peaceful) · bg мирен (calm and quiet; peaceful) · gv oayllaashagh (calm and quiet; peaceful) · la placidus (calm and quiet; peaceful) · zza vınderdi (calm and quiet; peaceful) · pt plácido (calm and quiet; peaceful) · ru безмяте́жный (calm and quiet; peaceful) · cmn 平靜 /平静 (calm and quiet; peaceful) · pl spokojny (calm and quiet; peaceful) · pt calmo (calm and quiet; peaceful) · ar ساكن (calm and quiet; peaceful) · ru споко́йный (calm and quiet; peaceful) · cs poklidný (calm and quiet; peaceful) · de sanft (calm and quiet; peaceful) · uz sokin (calm and quiet; peaceful) · eo kalma (calm and quiet; peaceful) · de friedlich (calm and quiet; peaceful) · tr durgun (calm and quiet; peaceful) · ja 静かな (calm and quiet; peaceful) · eo trankvila (calm and quiet; peaceful) · bg спокоен (calm and quiet; peaceful) · fr placide (calm and quiet; peaceful) · ca plàcid (calm and quiet; peaceful) · cmn 寧靜 /宁静 (calm and quiet; peaceful) · es plácido (calm and quiet; peaceful) · ar هادئ (calm and quiet; peaceful)