pacific | (adjective) promoting peace | - |
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(adjective) disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature | Synonyms: peaceable |
pacifically | (adverb) in a peaceable manner | Synonyms: peaceably |
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pacification | (noun) the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined | Synonyms: mollification |
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(noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: counterinsurgency |
(noun) a treaty to cease hostilities | Synonyms: peace, peace treaty |
pacificism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacifism, passivism |
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(noun) the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration | Synonyms: pacifism |
pacificist | (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: disarmer, pacifist |
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pacifier | (noun) device used for an infant to suck or bite on | Synonyms: baby's dummy, comforter, teething ring |
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(noun) anything that serves to pacify | - |
(noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, peacemaker, reconciler |
pacifism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacificism, passivism |
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(noun) the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration | Synonyms: pacificism |
pacifist | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: dovish, pacifistic |
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(noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: disarmer, pacificist |
pacifistic | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: dovish, pacifist |
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pacifistically | (adverb) in a pacifistic manner | - |
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pacify | (verb) fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location) | - |
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(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, placate |
pacing | (noun) walking with slow regular strides | - |
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(noun) (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played | Synonyms: tempo |