aplomb
/əˈplʌm/UK/æ-/
aplomb noun: self-confidence; poise; composure.
Noun
aplomb (usually uncountable, plural aplombs)
- Self-confidence; poise; composure.
- His nonchalance and aplomb during hard times have always been his best character trait.
- “Oh, Wooster,” he said, “I was talking to my mother a night or two ago.” “Oh, yes?” I said, with a slight wave of the hand intended to indicate that if he liked to talk to his mother anywhere, all over the house, he had my approval. “She tells me you are interested in mice.” I didn't like the trend...1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
- The apparent elegance and precision exhibited by a confident, accomplished dancer.
- The perpendicular; perpendicularity.
aplomb meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
aplomb in Urdu
- عمودیت, خود سے مطمئن
aplomb in Bengali
- আত্মবিশ্বাস ও মানসিক স্থিরতা
aplomb in Malayalam
- self-confidence, poise, self-assurance
- മനഃസാന്നിദ്ധ്യം, ആത്മവിശ്വാസം, ആത്മപ്രത്യയം, തന്റെേടം, തനിക്കുതാൻപോരിമ, ആത്മധെെര്യം
aplomb in Kannada
- ತನ್ನಂಬಿಕೆ
Examples of aplomb in a sentence
- “She tells me you are interested in mice.” I didn't like the trend the conversation was taking, but I preserved my aplomb.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- We can handle functions of a few variables with some aplomb and view sets of quantities totalling IO6 or IO7 with sangfroid.1961, Richard Bellman, Adaptive Control Processes: A Guided Tour, Princeton University Press, page 197:
- At Sudbury Hill, on London Underground's Piccadilly Line extension out to the north-western suburbs, Transport for London has achieved this with aplomb.2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Sudbury Hill”, in RAIL, number 972, page 57:
- He carries the film with aplomb and invests the action with enough familiarity from the previous films that fans will be more than happy.2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club:
Forms of aplomb
| plural | aplombs |
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Origin of aplomb
Unadapted borrowing from French aplomb (“plumb line”).
Words that rhyme with aplomb
Questions about aplomb
- What does aplomb mean?
- Aplomb means self-confidence; poise; composure.
- What is aplomb in Urdu?
- Aplomb in Urdu is عمودیت, خود سے مطمئن. See Aplomb meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use aplomb in a sentence?
- “She tells me you are interested in mice.” I didn't like the trend the conversation was taking, but I preserved my aplomb.
- What part of speech is aplomb?
- Aplomb is a noun.
- How do you pronounce aplomb?
- Aplomb is pronounced /əˈplʌm/.
- What is the plural of aplomb?
- The plural of aplomb is aplombs.
Words near aplomb in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: aplomb (page history and authors); aplomb (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aplomb (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aplomb (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); aplomb (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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