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placid

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1. placid - Adjective

2. placid - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice . . . George Eliot

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled And Shakespeare at his side,a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world. William Wordsworth

The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships. Anton Chekhov

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Lytton Strachey

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Lytton Strachey

Do not think that placid water is without crocodiles. Malay Proverb

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