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Significados de placid em inglês

(Of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves.

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Not easily irritated.

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Examples for "equable"
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In winter time the climate is equable; in summer it is unbearable.
With the British Army in The Holy Land
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He had found Eva less equable in her tender management than usual.
In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 08
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It flowed in a steady, equable current, unvexed by storm or tempest.
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
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A complete, equable circulation of the blood is thereby most perfectly secured.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 / A Magazi...
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You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
Leaves of Grass
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For an even-tempered person, she was finding it difficult to remain calm.
The spurned viscountess
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Maintaining an even-tempered attitude works best, while moody responses should be avoided!
The South African
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Dunn is compelling as the responsible sister, even-tempered but steely and guarded.
Reuters
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She was even-tempered and calm and quite as cheerful as of old.
War and Peace
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She'd been putting a great deal of energy into being amiable and even-tempered.
Ruthless
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The tone in which Roger Barnes spoke was good-tempered, but quite perfunctory.
Marriage à la mode
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Algernon muttered a queer reply in a good-tempered tone, and escaped him.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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That he was not a good-tempered man had been her firmest opinion.
Pride and Prejudice
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Because I am very quick-tempered I want to live with good-tempered people.
Stepping Heavenward
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Her uncle Macomer was not always good-tempered and he was never considerate.
Taquisara

Easygoing.

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Uso de placid em inglês
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The winds were gone, and now it was just water, placid water.
Zeitoun
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The placid surface was vexed; the attempt on its being had hurt.
Greener Than You Think
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Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid.
Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus
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Tornov thought for a moment while Bazarian raged behind a placid façade.
Red inferno: 1945
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The principal object of meditation was of course the placid lake itself-
Byeways in Palestine
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Her mood is never as placid and sane as in the North.
Time and Change
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And my little placid Musketaquid River looked gayer today in the sun.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 18...
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Two green dots coming towards Phillips's big, placid ship far too quickly.
The Guardian
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The mist settled down, returned to a state of placid, endless gray.
The Child Thief
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Hence the placid acceptance of military propaganda and even of vindictive exhortation.
Preaching and Paganism
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Seeing us, his normally placid expression flickered briefly into panic and surprise.
The Wise Man’s Fear
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On the broad, placid bosom of the stream the logs would float.
The Riverman
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Dariat could sense someone inside, a dozing mind, its thought currents placid.
The Neutronium Alchemist
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I used to be a placid girl; now I am a fidget.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long
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The lights were twinkling here and there all over the placid bay.
Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila
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So rang forth the notes of humble thanksgiving across the placid sea.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
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