单词 | unplacid |
释义 | unplacidadj. Not placid; excitable, volatile; agitated, unsettled. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > spiritedness or liveliness > [adjective] > boisterously lively exuberant?1504 flagartie1535 unsober1542 unstaida1557 coltisha1586 skittisha1592 unsettled1594 untameful1607 tearing1654 boisterousa1683 rackety1773 rumbustiousa1777 ranty1783 polrumptious1787 spanking1801 flisky1807 uproarious1819 unplacid1825 skylarking1826 fizzy1855 polyphloisboisterousa1875 polyphloisbic1915 raucous1919 boysy1921 bang-about1933 Tigger-like1974 1825 J. P. Thomas My Thought Bk. 123 If you charge them with being unplacid, they will storm still more violently. 1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain iii. vi. 335 His face had that worn, or, rather, unplacid appearance. 1899 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 24 May 3/1 I have..held a rod over the bosom of Green lake hour after hour, when it was placid and when it was unplacid. 1933 Biometrika 25 28 A standard distance between camera and subject..and a standard focus..were kept as exact as possible in the rather unplacid circumstances. a1994 W. Everson Coll. Poems (1998) II. App. A. 376 The quickness of time Frets no more the unplacid brow Where hope has ceased to dwell. 2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Apr. ii. 5 The placid snore is second only to the unplacid cell phone among the auditory hazards of contemporary concert life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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