placid
Syllables: plac·id/ˈplæsɪd/
placid adjective: calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil.
Adjective
placid (comparative placider, superlative placidest)
- calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil
- a placid disposition
- a placid lake
- Synonyms:
- cool-headed, serene, calm, steady, collected, composed, equable, equanimous, equanimitable, even-keeled
Proper noun capitalized: Placid
Placid
- An unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas, USA, originally named for its tranquility.
placid meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
placid in Tamil
- அமைதியான, குழப்பமிலாத, தடுமாறாத
placid in Urdu
- ملائم, پلپلا, ساکن
placid in Malayalam
- placid, meek, mild, virtuous, gentle
- വിനീത vinīta
placid in Kannada
- ಶಾಂತ, ಸೌಮ್ಯ, ಅಕ್ಷುಬ್ಧ, ಸಮಾಧಾನದ, ನಿರುದ್ವಿಗ್ನ, ಅಲ್ಲಾಡದ
More languagesFewer languages
- placid in Arabic
- هادئ, ساكن
Examples of placid in a sentence
- 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:
Synonyms of placid
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Forms of placid
| comparative | placider |
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| superlative | placidest |
Origin of placid
Borrowed from French placide, from Latin placidus (“peaceful, calm, placid”), from placeō (“please, satisfy”).
Words formed from placid
Words that rhyme with placid
- acid
- aminosalicylic acid
- peracid
- subacid
- alendronic acid
- amidotrizoic acid
- aminocaproic acid
- antacid
- barbituric acid
- diacid
- diatrizoic acid
- etidronic acid
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- glycyrrhizic acid
- hydracid
- hydrochloric acid
- hyperacid
- hypoacid
- iopanoic acid
- iopodic acid
- isethionic acid
- jassid
- ketoacid
- monacid
- monoacid
- mycophenolic acid
- nalidixic acid
- nonacid
- orotic acid
- oxyacid
- polyacid
- pyruvic acid
- ricinoleic acid
- risedronic acid
- stibogluconic acid
- superacid
- tetracid
- tiludronic acid
- tranexamic acid
- triacid
- zoledronic acid
Questions about placid
- What does placid mean?
- Placid means calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil.
- What is placid in Tamil?
- Placid in Tamil is அமைதியான, குழப்பமிலாத, தடுமாறாத. See Placid meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use placid in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is placid?
- Placid can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce placid?
- Placid is pronounced /ˈplæsɪd/.
Words near placid in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: placid (page history and authors); Placid (page history and authors); placid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); placid (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); വിനീത (Malayalam) (page history and authors); placid (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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