Meaning & use
Plussed
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Informal: unfazed, calm, or unsurprised, especially used as a back-formation from 'nonplussed.'
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After years on the job, nothing rattles her; she stays completely plussed during emergencies.
He seemed oddly plussed by the chaos backstage, calmly directing everyone.
A note on using this word
This is a nonstandard back-formation: 'nonplussed' actually means bewildered, not calm, but many speakers mistakenly treat 'non-' as a simple negative prefix and invent 'plussed' to mean the opposite.
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