Placid

adj, name

adj, name ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil

    "a placid disposition"

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves wordnet
  2. 2
    not easily irritated wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas, USA, originally named for its tranquility.

Synonyms

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unruffledafflictionat restbanebesetmentbother

Example

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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

Etymology

From French placide, from Latin placidus (“peaceful, calm, placid”), from placeō (“please, satisfy”).

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Lake Placid

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