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placid
English
Etymology
From French placide, from Latin placidus (“peaceful, calm, placid”), from place? (“please, satisfy”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?plæs.?d/
- Rhymes: -æs?d
Adjective
placid (comparative placider, superlative placidest)
- calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil
- a placid disposition
- a placid lake
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The Ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- 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?
Derived terms
- placidness
- placidity
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French placide
Adjective
placid m or n (feminine singular placid?, masculine plural placizi, feminine and neuter plural placide)
- placid
Declension
Related terms
- placiditate
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sunny
English
Etymology
From Middle English sunni, from Old English *sunni?. Cognate with West Frisian sinnich, Low German sünnig, Dutch zonnig, German sonnig. Equivalent to sun +? -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?ni/
- Rhymes: -?ni
- Homophone: sonny
Adjective
sunny (comparative sunnier, superlative sunniest)
- (of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine.
- Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.
- (of a place) Receiving a lot of sunshine.
- the sunny side of a hill
- I would describe Spain as sunny, but it's nothing in comparison to the Sahara.
- (figuratively, of a person or a person's mood) cheerful
- a sunny disposition
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors Act I scene 1
- My decayed fair / A sunny look of his would soon repair.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
- A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.
- Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; shiny; radiant.
- sunny beams
Synonyms
- (weather, day): bright; sunshiny
- (place): sunlit
- (person): bright, cheerful
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
sunny (not comparable)
- (US, regional) sunny side up
Noun
sunny (plural sunnies)
- A sunfish.
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