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| Main Entry: | pacific |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appeasing, peaceful |
| Synonyms: | amicable, calm, conciliatory, diplomatic, friendly, gentle, neutral, peaceable, placid, quiet, serene, tranquil, untroubled, at peace, peace-loving, peacemaking, placatory |
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| Main Entry: | amicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, especially regarding an agreement |
| Synonyms: | accordant, agreeing, amiable, civil, cordial, courteous, cozy, good-humored, harmonious, kind, kindly, like-minded, mellow, neighborly, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, polite, regular, sociable, sympathetic, understanding, clubby, concordant, empathic, right nice, square shooting |
| Notes: | amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign' |
| Antonyms: | hostile, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | conciliatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | placid, yielding |
| Synonyms: | calm, civil, disarming, pacific, peaceable, quiet, willing, appeasing, assuaging, irenic, mollifying, placating, placatory, propitiative |
| Antonyms: | antagonistic, fighting, stubborn, refusing |
| Main Entry: | peaceable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, serene |
| Synonyms: | amiable, amicable, calm, complacent, conciliatory, gentle, mild, neighborly, nonviolent, pacific, pacifist, peaceful, placid, quiet, restful, still, tranquil, irenic, pacificatory, peace-loving |
| Antonyms: | belligerent, cold, cool, mean, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | restful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quiet |
| Synonyms: | calm, comfortable, contented, inactive, motionless, pacific, peaceful, placid, retired, sedate, serene, soothing, still, tranquil, untroubled, hushed, relaxed, relaxing, unanxious, unexcited |
| Main Entry: | still |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, motionless, quiet |
| Synonyms: | closed, deathly, fixed, halcyon, inert, lifeless, noiseless, pacific, peaceful, placid, restful, sealed, serene, silent, smooth, soundless, stable, stagnant, static, stationary, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled, untroubled, at rest, buttoned up, clammed up, close-mouthed, deathlike, deathly quiet, deathly still, hushed, hushful, stock-still, unstirring, whist |
| Antonyms: | agitated, moving, stirred, unquiet |
| Main Entry: | tranquil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quiet, peaceful |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, amicable, balmy, calm, collected, comforting, composed, cool, easy, easygoing, even, even-tempered, gentle, halcyon, lenient, low, measured, mild, moderate, pacific, pastoral, patient, placid, pleasing, possessed, reasonable, restful, sedate, sedative, serene, smooth, sober, soft, soothing, stable, still, tame, temperate, undisturbed, unperturbed, unruffled, untroubled, whispering, at ease, at peace, hushed, murmuring, paradisiacal, poised, unexcitable, unexcited |
| Antonyms: | chaotic, loud, noisy, turbulent, violent, wild, unpeaceful |
| Main Entry: | calm |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | peaceful, quiet (inanimate) |
| Synonyms: | bland, breathless, bucolic, cool, halcyon, harmonious, inactive, low-key, mild, motionless, pacific, pastoral, placid, quiescent, restful, rural, serene, slow, smooth, soothing, still, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled, at a standstill, at peace, breezeless, hushed, in order, reposeful, reposing, stormless, waveless, windless |
| Antonyms: | excited, fierce, frenzied, rough, stormy, turbulent, violent, wild |
| Main Entry: | gentle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a mild or kind nature |
| Synonyms: | affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, compassionate, considerate, cool*, docile, domesticated, easy, genial, humane, kindly, lenient, manageable, meek, mellow, merciful, moderate, pacific, peaceful, placid, pleasant, pleasing, pliable, quiet, soft, softhearted, sympathetic, tame, taught, temperate, tender, tractable, trained, warmhearted, biddable, cultivated, disciplined, dove-like, laid back, sweet-tempered |
| Antonyms: | crude, rough, troubled, unkind, violent, wild |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mild |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gentle, temperate, nonirritating |
| Synonyms: | balmy, benign, blah*, bland, breezy, calm, choice, clear, clement, cool, dainty, delicate, easy, emollient, exquisite, faint, fine, flat, genial, lenient, light, lukewarm, medium, mellow, moderate, nothing, pabulum, pacific, peaceful, placid, smooth, soft, soothing, sunny, tepid, untroubled, vanilla*, warm, weak, benignant, demulcent, ho-hum, lenitive, mollifying, nothing much, tempered, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | fierce, harsh, rough, violent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | moderate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, temperate |
| Synonyms: | balanced, bearable, careful, cautious, conservative, considerate, considered, cool, deliberate, dispassionate, equable, even, gentle, impartial, inexpensive, judicious, limited, low-key, measured, middle-of-the-road*, mild, modest, monotonous, neutral, nonpartisan, pacific, peaceable, pleasant, reasonable, reserved, restrained, sober, soft, steady, straight, tame, tolerable, tolerant, tranquil, untroubled, abstinent, compromising, controlled, disciplined, inconsiderable, midway, not excessive |
| Antonyms: | excessive, extreme, immoderate, outrageous, uncontrolled, unlimited, unreasonable, unrestrained, violent, wild |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mild |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easygoing, pleasant in personality |
| Synonyms: | amiable, balmy, bland, calm, clement, compassionate, complaisant, deferential, docile, dull, easy, equable, feeble, flat, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, humane, indulgent, insipid, jejune, kind, lenient, meek, mellow, merciful, moderate, obeisant, obliging, pacific, patient, peaceable, placid, serene, smooth, soft, spiritless, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, temperate, tender, tranquil, unassuming, vapid, warm, forbearant, good-tempered, mild-mannered |
| Antonyms: | agitated, nervous, flappable |
| Main Entry: | quiet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, peaceful |
| Synonyms: | collected, contented, docile, fixed, gentle, halcyon, inactive, isolated, level, meek, mild, motionless, pacific, placid, private, remote, reserved, restful, retired, secluded, secret, sedate, serene, shy, smooth, stable, stagnant, still, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled, untroubled, hushed, sequestered, unanxious, unexcited, unfrequented |
| Antonyms: | agitated, troubled |
| Main Entry: | sober |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, peaceful; dull |
| Synonyms: | cold, collected, composed, cool, dark, dispassionate, down-to-earth*, drab, earnest, grave, hard-boiled*, imperturbable, inhibited, levelheaded, low-key, lucid, no-nonsense, pacific, plain, practical, quiet, rational, realistic, reasonable, reserved, restrained, sedate, serene, serious, severe, soft, solemn, somber, sound, staid, steady, subdued, unruffled, abnegating, abstaining, clear-headed, constrained, disciplined, eschewing, forgoing, toned down, unexcited, unimpassioned |
| Antonyms: | excited, immoderate, irrational |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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magic, Pythian, adumbrative, aeaeae, apocalyptic, apotropaic, attuned, beatific, blessed, blissed, celestial, chaldean, charmed, chimerical, deep, devoid, disembodied, divine, eerie, elevated, ethereal, evanescent, exalted, existential, extrasensory, fatidic, hagborn, hermetic, holy, hypnotic, imaginary, incantatory, integrated, magical, mantic, mystic, mystical, numinous, occult, oneiric, orphic, pacific, paranormal, phylacteric, positive, preternatural, psychedelic, psychic, realized, sacred, sensitive, sibylline, spellbound, stoicheiotical, sublime, supernal, supernatural, supersensible, supreme, surrealistic, talismanic, telestically, thaumaturgical, touched, transcendental, tuned, uncanny, unfamiliar, unimaginable, unreal, vatic, weird
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| Main Entry: | peace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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