placid
calm, peaceful, and undisturbed
Root
- plac: please, soothe, settle into calm
Other words with the plac root
- complacent: self-satisfied and unaware of risk
- complaisant: eager to please or agree with others
- implacable: unable to be appeased
- placate: to calm someone down
- placatory: intended to soothe, calm, or appease
- placebo: inactive treatment that may still produce a perceived benefit
- placidity: calmness or peaceful stillness
Placid is calm already present: a lake surface, a quiet face, a room where nothing is trying to explode.
The lake looked placid, even though a storm was moving behind the mountains.
Placid is the still picture in the plac family. Placate is what you do when calm is missing; placid is what it looks like when calm is already there.