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sangfroid

/sɑŋˈfɹɑ/

sangfroid noun: composure, self-possession or imperturbability especially when in a dangerous situation.

sangfroid: composure, self-possession or imperturbability especially when in a dangerous situation
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Noun

sangfroid (usually uncountable, plural sangfroids)

  1. (usually) Composure, self-possession or imperturbability especially when in a dangerous situation.
    • He handled the stressful situation with great sangfroid.
    • The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun’s perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness of manner, said of her: “She is a smart woman."1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC

sangfroid meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

sangfroid in Tamil

உறுதியான மனம், நிலைகுலையாமை

sangfroid in Urdu

دل جمعی, اطمنان, سکونی

sangfroid in Malayalam

self-possession, composure, equanimity
പരിപാകം, സമചിത്തത, പരിഭ്രമരഹിതത്വം, അക്ഷോഭം, അക്ഷോഭ്യത, നിശ്ചാഞ്ചല്യം

Examples of sangfroid in a sentence

  • We can handle functions of a few variables with some aplomb and view sets of quantities totalling 10⁶ or 10⁷ with sangfroid.1961, Richard Bellman, Adaptive Control Processes: A Guided Tour, Princeton University Press, page 197:
  • Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.2013 January, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:

Synonyms of sangfroid

Forms of sangfroid

pluralsangfroids
alternative formsang-froid
alternative formsang froid

Origin of sangfroid

Borrowed from French sang-froid, from sang (“blood”) + froid (“cold”).

Words that rhyme with sangfroid

Questions about sangfroid

What does sangfroid mean?
Sangfroid means composure, self-possession or imperturbability especially when in a dangerous situation.
What is sangfroid in Tamil?
Sangfroid in Tamil is உறுதியான மனம், நிலைகுலையாமை. See Sangfroid meaning in Tamil.
How do you use sangfroid in a sentence?
We can handle functions of a few variables with some aplomb and view sets of quantities totalling 10⁶ or 10⁷ with sangfroid.
What part of speech is sangfroid?
Sangfroid is a noun.
How do you pronounce sangfroid?
Sangfroid is pronounced /sɑŋˈfɹɑ/.
What is the plural of sangfroid?
The plural of sangfroid is sangfroids.

Words near sangfroid in the dictionary

  1. Sangerian
  2. sangers
  3. Sangerville
  4. sangest
  5. sangest small
  6. sangfroid
  7. sangfroids
  8. sanggenon
  9. sanggenons
  10. sangh
  11. sangha

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sangfroid (page history and authors); sangfroid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sangfroid (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sangfroid (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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