What does placid mean?
Placid means calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil.
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/ˈplæsɪd/ · adjective
calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil.
a placid disposition
a placid lake
April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration.
The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
[I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.
Use placid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Placid means calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil.
Common synonyms include cool-headed, serene, calm, collected.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a placid disposition
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