| Main Entry: | peaceable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, serene |
Synonyms: |
amiable, amicable, calm, complacent, conciliatory, gentle, irenic, mild, neighborly, nonviolent, pacific, pacificatory, pacifist, peace-loving, peaceful, placid, quiet, restful, still, tranquil |
| Notes: | peaceful means 'characterized by peace, in a state of peace or tranquility'; peaceable means 'disposed toward peace, inclined toward peacefulness' |
Antonyms: |
belligerent, cold, cool, mean, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | amicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, especially regarding an agreement |
Synonyms: |
accordant, agreeing, amiable, civil, clubby, concordant, cordial, courteous, cozy, empathic, good-humored, harmonious, kind, kindly, like-minded, mellow, neighborly, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, polite, regular, right nice, sociable, square shooting, sympathetic, understanding |
| 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: |
appeasing, assuaging, calm, civil, disarming, irenic, mollifying, pacific, peaceable, placating, placatory, propitiative, quiet, willing |
Antonyms: |
antagonistic, fighting, refusing, stubborn |
| Main Entry: | friendly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intimate, companionable |
Synonyms: |
affable, affectionate, amiable, amicable, attached, attentive, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, benign, buddy-buddy, chummy, civil, close, clubby, comradely, conciliatory, confiding, convivial, cordial, faithful, familiar, favorable, fond, genial, good, helpful, kind, kindly, loving, loyal, neighborly, on good terms, outgoing, peaceable, peaceful, propitious, receptive, sociable, solicitous, sympathetic, tender, thick, welcoming, well-disposed |
Antonyms: |
aloof, antagonistic, cold, cool, incompatible, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unreceptive, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | inoffensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not obnoxious; harmless |
Synonyms: |
calm, clean, friendly, humble, innocent, innocuous, innoxious, mild, neutral, nonprovocative, peaceable, pleasant, quiet, retiring, safe, unobjectionable, unobtrusive, unoffending |
Antonyms: |
damaging, harmful, malicious, offensive, provocative |
| 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, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, humane, indulgent, insipid, jejune, kind, lenient, meek, mellow, merciful, mild-mannered, moderate, obeisant, obliging, pacific, patient, peaceable, placid, serene, smooth, soft, spiritless, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, temperate, tender, tranquil, unassuming, vapid, warm |
Antonyms: |
agitated, flappable, nervous |
| Main Entry: | moderate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, temperate |
Synonyms: |
abstinent, balanced, bearable, careful, cautious, compromising, conservative, considerate, considered, controlled, cool, deliberate, disciplined, dispassionate, equable, even, gentle, impartial, inconsiderable, inexpensive, judicious, limited, low-key, measured, middle-of-the-road, midway, mild, modest, monotonous, neutral, nonpartisan, not excessive, pacific, peaceable, pleasant, reasonable, reserved, restrained, sober, soft, steady, straight, tame, tolerable, tolerant, tranquil, untroubled |
Antonyms: |
excessive, extreme, immoderate, outrageous, uncontrolled, unlimited, unreasonable, unrestrained, violent, wild |
| Main Entry: | nonviolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | peaceful |
Synonyms: |
irenic, nonbelligerent, pacifist, passive, peaceable, quiet, resistant, without violence |
Antonyms: |
hateful, mean, violent, wicked, wild |
| Main Entry: | ordered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | orderly |
Synonyms: |
all together, arranged, businesslike, controlled, disciplined, in good shape, in order, law-abiding, methodical, neat, organized, peaceable, precise, shipshape, systematic, systematized, tidy, well-behaved, well-organized |
| Main Entry: | orderly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-behaved |
Synonyms: |
at peace, calm, controlled, decorous, disciplined, docile, law-abiding, manageable, nonviolent, obedient, peaceable, quiet, restrained, submissive, tranquil, well-mannered |
Antonyms: |
bad, misbehaving, unruly |