Placidly

adv

adv ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a placid manner.

    "We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a placid and good-natured manner wordnet
  2. 2
    in a quiet and tranquil manner wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
calmlycomposedlycoollydispassionatelyimpassivelyimperturbably

Example

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"Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence."

Etymology

From placid + -ly.

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