Placid and Rumbustious

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Placid adjective - Free from emotional or mental agitation.

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Rumbustious is an antonym for placid.

Nearby Words: placidity, placidly

Rumbustious adjective - Being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way.

Usage example: while American university debates tend to be sedate affairs, their counterparts in Oxford are wholeheartedly rumbustious

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Placid is an antonym for rumbustious.

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