Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a placid manner; calmly; quietly; without disturbance or passion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a placid manner.

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  • adverb In a placid manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a quiet and tranquil manner
  • adverb in a placid and good-natured manner

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Examples

  • Indeed, so dramatic was the change from the placidly religious and conservative 1950s that in 1966 this theology made it to the cover of Time magazine see Figure 4.1.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • FOLLOWING LIKE thunder claps upon the Business Men's dinner, occurred event after event of terrifying moment; and I, little I, who had lived so placidly all my days in the quiet university town, found myself and my personal affairs drawn into the vortex of the great world-affairs.

    Chapter 10: The Vortex 2010

  • He was asleep on his back and breathing as placidly as a woman.

    Chapter 14 2010

  • Fear and terror had completely vanished, and it was a placidly beautiful face -

    Flush of Gold 2010

  • “Music in the dairy barns to make the cows give down their milk more placidly?”

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • It was a groove that bridged the Atlantic with uneventfulness, so that the ship was not a ship in the midst of the sea, but a capacious, many-corridored hotel that moved swiftly and placidly, crushing the waves into submission with its colossal bulk until the sea was a mill-pond, monotonous with quietude.

    THE UNEXPECTED 2010

  • "I have had two husbands," Li Faa stated placidly.

    THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

  • But the next instant, one of the boatmen, placidly lighting his pipe, was startled by an unwonted harshness in his captain's voice.

    THE GREAT INTERROGATION 2010

  • But Van Horn, with Jerry panting under his hand, placidly and philosophically continued to smoke, lighting a fresh cigar when the first gave out.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • You should be at home placidly vegetating as a banker's clerk or -- or --

    Chapter 5 2010

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