Synonyms for pacific
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Peaceful — calm, peaceful
peaceful, quiet, calm, still, serene, tranquil, unruffled, mild, placid, gentle, smooth, meek, relaxed, quiescent
2. Peaceable — preferring peace by nature; avoiding violence
peaceable, pacifistic, pacifist, anti-war, non-violent, dove-like, dovish, irenic rare, unaggressive rare
3. Conciliatory
Definitions
- adj. 1
Calm, peaceful.
- adj. 2
Preferring peace by nature; avoiding violence.
Related words
- Word family
- pacifically pacificism pacifist pacify pacifism
- Other spellings
- pacifical
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| pacific | falling | |
| peaceable | steady | |
| pacifistic | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- calm1, mild1, meek1
- 5 letters
- still1, quiet2
- 6 letters
- smooth1, gentle2, serene2, placid2, dovish2, irenic
- 7 letters
- relaxed2
- 8 letters
- peaceful2, tranquil2, pacifist3, amicable4
- 9 letters
- appeasing3, quiescent3, peaceable3, unruffled3
- 10 letters
- pacifistic
- 12 letters
- conciliatory6, unaggressive
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (quiet2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- pacifique
- Italiano
- pacifista
- Español
- pacífico
- Deutsch
- friedfertig