peaceable
/ˈpiːsəb(ə)l
/adjective
1Inclined to avoid conflict or dissent: an industrious, peaceable people...
- And though their numbers are small compared to the peaceable majority, they nevertheless constitute a growing hinterland for this militancy.
- And because I am a peaceable citizen, I should easily meet his criterion that no immediate damage would be done by allowing this.
- In the Golden Age (which Hesiod says was long before his own time) men were naturally peaceable, and for that reason there was no war.
Synonyms
peace-loving, unwarlike, non-belligerent, non-violent, non-combative, non-aggressive, conflict-free, easy, easy-going, placid, gentle, meek, mild, inoffensive, good-natured, even-tempered, amiable, amicable, friendly, affable, genial, civil, cooperative, conciliatory, pacific, pacifist, anti-war, dovelike, dovish
rare irenic, pacifistic
1.1Free from conflict or dissent; peaceful: peaceable demonstrations for democratic reform...
- On Sunday and Monday, the police fell back to let unpermitted demonstrations proceed to their peaceable conclusions.
- There's now a way to move forward through entirely peaceable and democratic means.
- This clearly acknowledges the possibility that innocent civilians going about their peaceable business may be stopped, hassled, even arrested, merely for resembling someone naughty.
Synonyms
peaceful, strife-free, harmonious, amicable, amiable, friendly, cordial;
well behaved, law-abiding, disciplined, orderly, civilized
archaic ruly
Derivatives
peaceableness
/ noun ...- Indologists like to extrapolate the peaceableness of the Hindus from a (often slightly orientalist) reading of philosophical texts.
- What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
- This is the basis of a civilised society in which secular law is enforced rarely because responsibility and peaceableness has been written on the hearts of the citizens.
peaceably
/ adverb ...- There is also no chance that we will ever see the error of our ways and live peaceably in harmony with one another.
- The only way we could have peaceably lived together would have been for me to pretend this wasn't happening.
- That said, it is Western values that have allowed people of different religions, cultures, and ethnicities to live together peaceably.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French peisible, alteration of plaisible, from late Latin placibilis 'pleasing', from Latin placere 'to please'.