placidly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a placid and good-natured manner

   I put the questions, and they answered them placidly.

2. 2
   adv

   in a quiet and tranquil manner

   the sea now shimmered placidly before our eyes

3. 3
   adv

   In a placid manner.

   We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.

Etymology

From placid + -ly.