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pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
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Placid
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- Even placid Oman is being dragged into the row.
- The colonial society seems placid, prospering at a Neolithic level, with the world populated by small farming villages.
- His demeanor was as placid as that of a midnight watchman finishing his shift.
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Word Origin & History
placid
1626, from Fr. placide, from L. placidus "pleasing, gentle," from placere "to please" (see please).
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