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Word Meanings - PEACEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end. 2. Not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation; pacific; mild; calm;

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1. Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end. 2. Not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation; pacific; mild; calm; peaceable; as, peaceful words. Syn. -- See Peaceable. --Peace"ful*ly, adv.. -- Peace"ful*ness, n.

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  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • SMOOTHEN
    To make smooth.
  • COMPOSITOUS
    Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
  • ROUSE
    To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
  • SMOOTHNESS
    Quality or state of being smooth.
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • PROPORTIONATE
    Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
  • UNIFORMISM
    The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
  • AGITATE
    1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
  • TRANQUIL
    Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil. A style clear, tranquil, easy to follow. De Quincey.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • PLACID
    Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
  • PACIFICATION
    The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of pacification." Bacon.
  • PACIFICATORY
    Tending to make peace; conciliatory. Barrow.
  • CONCILIATORY
    Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.
  • UNIFORMAL
    Uniform. Herrick.
  • CONCORDANT
    Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant. Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. Sir T. Browne
  • COMPOSURE
    1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
  • COMPOSSIBLE
    Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
  • UNIFORMLY
    In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
  • DISPROPORTIONALLY
    In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
  • INDECOMPOSABLENESS
    Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
  • IMPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportionate.
  • PHILOMUSICAL
    Loving music. Busby.
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • INSTILL
    To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
  • DISPROPORTIONABLE
    Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
  • DISPROPORTIONALITY
    The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
  • PISTILLIFEROUS
    Pistillate.
  • DISQUIETTUDE
    Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
  • TROUSERING
    Cloth or material for making trousers.
  • EFFLAGITATE
    To ask urgently. Cockeram.
  • DISQUIETLY
    In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.

 

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