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# placid

«placid» in Mova's school dictionary: **Calm, peaceful and not easily upset or excited: «a placid…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (placid; more placid, most placid)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Calm, peaceful and not easily upset or excited: «a placid horse». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placid/#m1)

2) (of water) Still and smooth: «a placid lake». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placid/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories: placid animals (cows, old horses), placid ponds and rivers in calm scenes. In everyday talk, a placid baby rarely cries.

### examples

- The old horse was placid and gentle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placid/#x1)
- The lake was placid in the early morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placid/#x2)
- Our baby is very placid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placid/#x3)
- Cows grazed placidly in the meadow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placid/#x4)
- The river flowed placid and slow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placid/#x5)
- He has a placid nature and never shouts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placid/#x6)

### note

Adverb: placidly. Similar: calm, tranquil, serene. Opposite: excitable, stormy.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «placid» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placid/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.