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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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."