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# placidly

«placidly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a calm, peaceful way, without getting excited or upset** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (placidly)

### meaning for a pupil

In a calm, peaceful way, without getting excited or upset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placidly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, animals graze placidly or a river flows placidly. It tells the reader all is calm.

### examples

- The cows grazed placidly in the meadow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placidly/#x1)
- The river flowed placidly past the Rat's house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placidly/#x2)
- She smiled placidly at the fuss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placidly/#x3)
- The cat sat placidly in the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placidly/#x4)
- The old horse stood placidly by the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placidly/#x5)
- The baby slept placidly through the noise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placidly/#x6)
- For long he muttered to himself, staring at Smee, who was hemming placidly, under the conviction that all children feared him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placidly/#x7)

### note

From «placid». Opposite: wildly, angrily.

### Trees and pragmatics

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