0 having a calm appearance or characteristics:
If we read the newspapers we can see that there is a volume of criticism of a very gentle, placid type.
He will be rather placid and listen to an important, interesting debate on the state of the economy.
I do not want to disturb the quiet, not to say placid, atmosphere this morning, and will therefore say hardly anything.
This afternoon we have had a debate which has been most placid and has proceeded at an even tenor.
I happen to be of a rather placid and extremely lazy disposition.
One would think that the placid atmosphere all around us was such that we should not have any emergency laws in any shape or form.
The debate has been placid so far, and there is no reason why it should not continue so.
A normally placid section of the community has been roused to protest.
