Definitions for placid

placid plac·id

Spelling: [plas-id]
IPA: /ˈplæs ɪd/

Placid is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in placid (acdilp).

Definitions for placid

adjective

  1. pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed:

Origin of placid

1620-30; Latin placidus calm, quiet, akin to placēre to please (orig., to calm); see -id4

Examples for placid

They would speak up, but in tones still soft and placid; and Spahn often overheard them describing him as a “beautiful person.”

It had the pure and placid expression of the human soul, when it dwells in love and peace.

Dilly took her placid companion by the arm, and hurried her on.

His face immediately shifted out of the placid, guarded, friendliness of the Scheduled Speaker into ambroad, welcoming smile.

Underneath the most placid waters, there are vicious currents and tides, and underwater volcanoes that are constantly erupting.

Plus, Michael Daly on Chicago's carnage and Jim Warren on the placid protest.

By degrees the placid influence of her friend calmed her perturbed spirit.

And I long for the placid days when all I worried about were jackhammers, Halal carts and clueless tourists on rental bikes.

They were a phlegmatic race, placid, unimaginative, reposeful.

“A fair-haired fellow,” the last observed in a placid tone, and paused.

Word Value for placid
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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