Synonyms for irenic

Most common

pacific · non-violent · peaceful · peaceable · pacifist · dovish · pacifistic · irenical

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Adjective

Antonyms

unirenic, contentious, belligerent

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Definitions

1. adj. 1

   Promoting or fitted to promote peace or peacemaking, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful.

Related words

Other spellings

eirenic

Example sentences

• pacific We enjoyed a long voyage across the Pacific Ocean.
• peaceful Sometimes I feel like living a more peaceful life.
• pacifist He's a representative of the pacifist movement.
• dovish He's both a hawkish dove and a dovish hawk.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

6 letters

dovish²

7 letters

pacific³

8 letters

peaceful², pacifist³, irenical

9 letters

peaceable³

10 letters

pacifistic, nonpolemic

12 letters

nonpolemical

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dovish² = 2 syllables).