Reverse Dictionary: PEACE

PEACE, PEACEABLE, PEACEFUL, PEACEFULLY, PEACEFULNESS, PEACEMAKER


ADJECTIVES
► CALMY characterized by calm; tranquil, peaceful → 1587 poetic usage, arch.
► EASEFUL that gives ease, comfort, or relief; comfortable, soothing; quiet, peaceful, restful → 1375
► EIRENIC ► IRENIC tending to or productive of peace → 1878
► GRITHFUL peaceful → 1205 obs.
► GRITHLY peaceable → 1205 obs.
► HALCYON calm, quiet, peaceful, undisturbed → 1578
► HALCYONIAN calm, quiet, peaceful → 1617 obs.
► PACAL that brings or signifies peace; peaceable → 1656 obs.
► PACATE pacified, brought into a state of peace and calm, tranquil → 1644 obs.
► PACATED appeased; made peaceable → 1727 obs.
► PACIFEROUS peace-bringing → 1656 obs.
► PACIFIC 1. making peace; leading to peace or reconciliation; conciliatory, appeasing → a1548
2. characterized by peace or calm; peaceful, calm, tranquil, quiet → 1633
3. of peaceful disposition; not belligerent; peaceable → 1641
► PACIFICAL peaceable → c1485
► PACIFICATORY tending to make peace → 1583
► PACIFICOUS quiet, peaceful, tending to make peace → 1608 obs.
► QUIETOUS quiet, peaceful → 1550 obs.
► SAFT in a peaceable quiet state → 1927 Sc.
► SAUGHT in agreement, free from strife, at peace, reconciled → 956 obs.
► SAUGHTENING bringing about concord or peace → a1300 obs.
► STILLWORTH peaceful → c1275 obs.
► TRANQUILLOUS free from agitation or disturbance; tranquil, calm, serene, placid, quiet, still, peaceful → 1638 obs.


ADVERBS
LOWN calmly, quietly; peacefully, tranquilly; also, in a low voice, softly → a1600 chiefly Sc.
► FAIRLY gently, peaceably, quietly, softly → 1400 obs.
► PACIFICALLY peacefully, peaceably → 1793 
► QUIETOUSLY quietly, peacefully → 1550 obs.


NOUNS
► BARS peace, truce → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► EIRENICON a proposal tending to make peace; an attempt to reconcile differences → 1865
► GRITH peace → 1000 obs.
► HEALTH-OFFERING peace offering → 1535 obs.
► JOBLIJOCK anything tending to interfere with domestic comfort or peace, as a scolding wife, a smoking chimney, etc.; domestic trouble or discomfort → 1868 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
​► LEE a sheltered position or condition; hence, calmness, peace, tranquillity → a1300 obs.
► ORE the condition of being spared; security from danger, peace → c1205 obs.
► PACATENESS the state of being peaceful → 1666 obs.
► PACATION the act of pacifying or tranquillizing; the condition of being peaceful and tranquil; pacification → 1658
► PACIFEROUSNESS peace bringing quality → 1727 obs.
► PACIFICITY the quality of being pacific; peacefulness → 1800
► PACIFICS peace-offerings → 1609 obs.
► PACIFIQUES peace-offerings → 1609 obs.
► SAUCHT peace, quiet, tranquillity → 1710 Sc. obs.
► SAUGHT agreement, freedom from strife, peace → c1100 obs.
► SIB peace, amity, concord → c825 obs.
► SIBSOMENESS peace, concord → a900 obs.


NOUNS – PERSON
► MAKE-PEACE one who or something which makes peace; a peacemaker → 1516
► PACIFICATOR one who pacifies or brings to a state of peace; a peace-maker → 1539
► PACIFICO a peaceful person; a pacifist → 1942 Amer. sl. 
► PACIFIER one who pacifies or appeases; a peacemaker → 1533
► PEACE-CRIER a person who advocates the making of peace → 1840
► RIDDER one who parts combatants; a peacemaker → 1775 Sc. obs.
► SILENTIARY someone appointed to keep peace and quiet → 1653


PHRASES
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT calm, peaceful, uneventful → WWI Amer. sl.

VERBS
► BEAT SWORDS INTO PLOUGSHARES to abstain from destructive activities, such as war and violence (symbolized by swords), in favour of peaceful, constructive activities (symbolized by ploughshares, a farming implement) → 1976
► BREAK to cause a breach of the peace → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► GRITH to make peace → 1100 obs.
► PACIFICATE 1. to make peace with → 1646 obs.
2. to give or restore peace to; to appease; to pacify → 1827 
► PERPACATE to make something entirely peaceful and calm; to set things in order → 1623 obs.
► SAUGHT to bring to peace; to reconcile → 1000 obs.
► THROW AWAY THE SCABBARD to abandon all thought of making peace → 1674
► WALK SOFT to behave quietly and peacefully; to be modest → 1960s African-American sl.