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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)

  1. 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)

  1. placid

Declension

Related terms

  • placiditate

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unflappable

English

Etymology

From un- +? flap (“to upset, stir”) +? -able.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?flæp?b?l/

Adjective

unflappable (comparative more unflappable, superlative most unflappable)

  1. Remaining composed and level-headed at all times; impossible to fluster; not becoming frustrated or irritated easily. [from 1954]
    Synonyms: collected, cool, even-keeled
    Antonym: flappable

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