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synonyms for placid

  • easygoing
  • even-tempered
  • gentle
  • peaceful
  • quiet
  • serene
  • tranquil
  • collected
  • composed
  • cool
  • cool as a cucumber
  • detached
  • equable
  • even
  • halcyon
  • hushed
  • imperturbable
  • irenic
  • poised
  • restful
  • self-possessed
  • still
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antonyms for placid

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  • agitated
  • clamorous
  • disturbed
  • excited
  • loud
  • noisy
  • troubled
  • turbulent
  • violent
  • wild
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How to use placid in a sentence

He uses the relatively placid actions of some to minimize the obvious violence and vandalism committed by others.
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Built in 1960, the facility is now as well known for its placid, soaring architecture as for the boundary-pushing science that happens in its labs.
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Despite the warning signs posted around the lake, some visitors have waded into the seemingly placid waters of Emerald Pool, only to get whisked away by the current.
DANGER LURKS IN NATIONAL PARKS, BUT NOT NECESSARILY WHERE YOU EXPECT ITMILES HOWARDFEBRUARY 25, 2021WASHINGTON POST
The benchmark is hovering at nearly double the level it was a year ago—suggesting a new normal relative to the placid expectations of recent years, and compared with the exuberance in the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 that soared more than 45% last year.
WHILE US STOCKS PUNCH THROUGH RECORD HIGHS, THE VIX INDEX IS SIGNALING CAUTIONJOHN DETRIXHEJANUARY 4, 2021QUARTZ
Calcium-­carbonate tufa spires shoot up from the placid waters, resulting in an eerie ­display of the lake’s peculiar ­chemistry.
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These are known, for mathematical reasons, as saddle points, and they look like fairly placid geometries.
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Mrs. Newbolt was looking away toward the hills, a dreamy cast in her placid face.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN
The baby had thrived; as placid, laughing a little thing as if its mother had never known sorrow.
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Frulein Timm belongs to the single sisterhood, but is one of the fresh and placid kind, and as neat as wax.
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They mostly wore the placid expression of folks engaged in business affairs instead of the worried look of pleasure-seekers.
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