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tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostility<as a pacific gesture, we invited our feuding neighbors to our backyard barbecue>Synonymsappeasing, conciliating, conciliatory, disarming, mollifying, pacifying, peacemaking, placating, propitiatoryRelated Wordsendearing, ingratiating; peaceable, peaceful; nonbelligerent, unaggressive, unassertive; calming, comforting, quieting, soothing; obliging, satisfying; affable, amiable, amicable, benevolent, gentle, kind, kindly; submissive, surrendering, yieldingNear Antonymsaggravating, annoying, exasperating, inflammatory, irritating, nettling, offensive, provocative, provoking, vexing; engaging, incensing, infuriating, maddening; antagonistic, hostile; aggressive, assertive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent; martial, militant, military, warlikeAntonymsantagonizing
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inclined to live in peace and to avoid war<a pacific nation that has managed to remain neutral even during times of world conflict>— see peaceful 1
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