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	placid
	water [a]: rolig, stille behavior [a]: jevnt humør, rolig
	water [a]: sereno, tranquilo behavior [a]: ecuánime, apacible
	water [a]: lugn, stilla behavior [a]: jämn till humöret, lugn

Synonyms:

[adj]: quiet, still, tranquil, smooth, unruffled, calm [st] [adj]: equable, even-tempered, good-tempered, good-natured [st] [adj]: easygoing, calm, contented [st], content [st]

Derived terms:

placidity, placidness, placido domingo, placidyl

Example:

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. Now that hes retired, Yves can look forward to a contented and placid life. The placid water flowed under the bridge. This is a placid and cozy place. There is one respect in which brutes show real wisdom when compared with us — I mean their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

Similar words:

	plaid
	placing
	placard
	plait
	plain
	place
	pleid

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