placidly
/plˈæsɪdli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.80 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal."
- "He was a big chubby man, in his middle thirties, the muscle of his rugger days now settling placidly to reminiscent fat."
- "“You act like you grew ten inches in the night! All right, what is it?” Jem said placidly, “We are going to give a note to Boo Radley.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree French placide English placid Middle English -ly English -ly English placidly From placid + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more placidly (comparative)
most placidly (superlative)