What's the difference between lucid and placid?

Lucid


Definition:

  • (n.) Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
  • (n.) Clear; transparent.
  • (n.) Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.
  • (n.) Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After sulfentanil analgesia the patients were more rapidly awake and lucid, than after fentanyl-analgesia.
  • (2) Further reductions in psychotropic medications and the addition of the anticonvulsant medication resulted in continued rapid deceleration of rate of occurrence of maladaptive behaviours with a concomitant increase in lucid statements and independent functioning.
  • (3) The woman snaps out of bed and opens her eyes, absurdly conscious and alive, wonderfully lucid.
  • (4) The mortality related to deficits following a lucid interval was 44 per cent, whereas the mortality of immediate deficit was 13 per cent.
  • (5) (3) Some patients go into delirium after being lucid for as long as a week and have hallucinations, illusions, and motor excitation for a few days-or over several weeks.
  • (6) In contrast, the mechanism of injury, the verbal Glasgow Coma Scale score during the lucid interval, and the length of time until deterioration or until operative intervention did not influence the final result.
  • (7) While still a close run thing, the statistics now appear to favour the back foot.” His non-cricket explanation did little to increase the speech’s lucidity average.
  • (8) After 45 minutes, Ethiopia's troubles had slipped away and a sense of wellbeing, alertness, euphoria and lucidity took over.
  • (9) He gave a lucid and thoroughly depressing talk on "China's Role in the Global Climate Game," describing a number of unpleasant options China, the United States, and the rest of the world will have to face in dealing with climate changes already underway.
  • (10) A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states.
  • (11) In the technically complex world of F1 his triumph can be explained in the most lucid of terms: he was faster than his most serious rival, his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg.
  • (12) The patient emerged from anesthesia comfortable and lucid and experienced no perioperative anesthetic complications.
  • (13) The majority of particles visualized by immune electron microscopy had electrondense appearance, while electron-lucid particles were only occasionally encountered.
  • (14) A single subject, a proficient lucid dreamer experienced with signaling the onset of lucidity (reflective consciousness of dreaming) by means of voluntary eye movements, spent 4 nonconsecutive nights in the sleep laboratory.
  • (15) The study of a series of brains from patients who had a severe head injury and died within 72 h without a lucid interval showed that there was a step-wise progression in the development of retraction balls.
  • (16) When I went up to the spot I was pretty lucid, as much as one can be in that kind of situation.
  • (17) Ed Miliband's greatest strength – more than either his undoubted intellect or obvious lucidity – is the courage of his conviction.
  • (18) The detection of skull fracture or of a lucid interval was not prognostically useful.
  • (19) The patient's age, the course of consciousness before operation (whether there was a lucid interval), and the clot location did not correlate with the final outcome.
  • (20) Nurses interact significantly less with confused than lucid patients.

Placid


Definition:

  • (a.) Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Ss became extremely placid and tame or were profoundly depressed in their overall behavior most of the time.
  • (2) Infants in the third quartile were fussy at the commencement of the period and became gradually more placid from the fifth week of life.
  • (3) I vote for who I want.” embed The Guardian asked Placide, who was naturalized as an American citizen in 1990 and who works an evening shift for a nursing agency to put her two children through college, whether she thought Trump had made America great again.
  • (4) There are vast areas in which my peaceful indifference to what Amazon is and does can only be surpassed by Amazon’s presumably equally placid indifference to what I say and do.
  • (5) "A lot of teens in the early noughties were taking ketamine, which was a very placid, down drug that kept you in your own zone.
  • (6) As our car crawls through central London, from WPP's Mayfair head office to Millbank, where Sorrell is to sit on a panel, the dog sits placidly in the back, lolling its head in the sun.
  • (7) One personality was irritable and hostile, the other placid; in each case, a major seizure preceded the shift from the former to the latter.
  • (8) Even Angela Merkel of Germany, that placid sheet anchor of European stability, faces grassroots challenges from left and right.
  • (9) Read today's Rumour Mill here 9.23am BST Germany's Per Mertesacker is a pretty placid guy off the pitch, so when he gets shirty with a journalist you know he's had a long day.
  • (10) Do we just placidly accept their ideologically driven desire to drive back the frontiers of the state, to cut and privatise?
  • (11) And I don’t think I have ever achieved that almost pastoral Christmas nirvana, always promoted in tinselly TV ads, of just sitting placidly around after Christmas lunch and then smilingly responding as one’s child shows you a present without complaining or demanding anything.
  • (12) Were this just the froth of diehard Brexiteers at an otherwise placid time, we’d move on faster than you could say “ Bill Cash” .
  • (13) They need to get it done.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marie Claire Placide, a dress shop owner and fashion designer, in Bangor, Pennsylvania.
  • (14) Aisikaier's life at the park is placid, if not slightly purgatorial.
  • (15) He wanted so much to convince his mates that he really had spied a miracle and to make sure that his normally placid mind had not fallen victim of some strange figment of the imagination, a confidence trick, a sudden mirage brought on by the unrelenting rays of the sun.'
  • (16) Danny Rynne, a scaffolder from Enfield, described Mahmoud as “lovely” and “placid”.
  • (17) After suffering a carbon monoxide intoxication, a thirty-nine-year-old patient presented a marked behavioral change, with a severe anterograde and retrograde amnesia, extreme placidity, bulimia, and hypersexuality.
  • (18) They noticed that 19 of the 20 patients were mentally slower; 11 were markedly aggressive and 8 had become placid and uncaring about family problems.
  • (19) By way of contrast to events earlier in the tour, where large crowds have turned out, the duke and duchess were greeted sedately by the islanders who brought out picnic chairs and sat placidly waiting on the grass verges at the side of the road leading from the airport to the tiny capital, Charlottetown.
  • (20) The great majority of the infants were very placid.