Pacific

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  • adjective. Tending to diminish or put an end to conflict; appeasing.
  • adjective. Of a peaceful nature; tranquil.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Serving to make or restore peace; adapted to reconcile differences; peace-making; conciliatory; mild; appeasing: as, to offer pacific propositions to a belligerent power.
  • Peaceful; not warlike: as, a man of pacific disposition.
  • Characterized by peace or calm; calm; tranquil: as, a pacific state of things.
  • [capitalized] Appellative of the ocean lying between the west coast of America and the east coast of Asia: so called on account of the exemption from violent, tempests which early navigators supposed it to enjoy; hence, relating to or connected with that ocean.
  • =Syn. 1-3. Pacific, Peaceable, Peaceful, gentle, quiet, smooth, unruffled. Pacific, making or desiring to make peace; peaceable, desiring to be at peace, free from the disposition to quarrel; peaceful, in a state of peace.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • proper noun. The Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome
  • adjective. Promoting peace; suited to make or restore peace; conciliatory.
  • adjective. of or pertaining to the Pacific Ocean.
  • adjective. the ocean between America and Asia, so called by Magellan, its first European navigator, on account of the exemption from violent tempests which he enjoyed while sailing over it; -- called also, simply, the Pacific, and, formerly, the South sea.
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  • adjective. Calm, peaceful.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature
  • noun. the largest ocean in the world
  • adjective. relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean
  • adjective. promoting peace
    • Word Usage
    "It could be very significant, however, but they don't anticipate that it's going to be moving out throughout the pacific, and so it won't be what we call a pacific wide tsunami."
    cross-reference
    pacific iron  peaceable  
    Equivalent
    conciliative  conciliatory  peaceable  peaceful  
    Form
    Pacific Ocean  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ocean  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    hieroglyphic  honorific  horrific  nonspecific  prolific  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    amicable  belligerent  civilize  conciliatory  courteous  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Pacific Ocean  appeasing  appeasing  at peace  at rest  
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