What's the difference between peaceful and placid?

Peaceful


Definition:

  • (a.) Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end.
  • (a.) Not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation; pacific; mild; calm; peaceable; as, peaceful words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (2) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
  • (3) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
  • (4) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
  • (5) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
  • (6) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
  • (7) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.
  • (8) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
  • (9) These days, all Russian 15-year-olds study War and Peace as part of their national curriculum.
  • (10) Sadly, the Jewish fanatic who assassinated Rabin in 1995 achieved his broader aim of derailing the peace train.
  • (11) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
  • (12) She also welcomed the wider context of Mohammed's release: "I do believe that this time there will be peace," she said, referring to the talks due to open on Wednesday.
  • (13) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
  • (14) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
  • (15) Laryngo-tracheal traumatisms are not frequent at peace time.
  • (16) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
  • (17) "What Russia is doing now in Ukraine threatens peace and security in Europe ," said Nato's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
  • (18) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
  • (19) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
  • (20) Kerry, however, has called on Egypt to respect the right of peaceful protest, including pro-Morsi rallies.

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.