pacific

The word “pacific” has 3 syllables: pa-cif-ic

It's pronounced as /pəˈsɪfɪk/


What is synonym and antonym for pacific?

In the thesaurus, “pacific” has 68 synonyms and 58 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for pacific along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for pacific

  • affable
  • agreeable
  • amiable
  • amicable
  • antimilitarist
  • antimilitaristic
  • antiviolence
  • antiwar
  • appeasing
  • at peace
  • benevolent
  • calm
  • calming
  • comforting
  • conciliating
  • conciliatory
  • diplomatic
  • disarming
  • dovish
  • endearing
  • friendly
  • genial
  • gentle
  • good-natured
  • good-tempered
  • ingratiating
  • irenic
  • kind
  • kindly
  • lulling
  • mild
  • mollifying
  • neutral
  • nonaggressive
  • nonbelligerent
  • noncombative
  • obliging
  • pacifist
  • pacifistic
  • pacifying
  • passive
  • peace-loving
  • peaceable
  • peaceful
  • peacemaking
  • placating
  • placatory
  • placid
  • propitiatory
  • quiet
  • quieting
  • relaxed
  • relaxing
  • satisfying
  • serene
  • soothing
  • submissive
  • surrendering
  • tranquil
  • tranquilizing
  • tranquillizing
  • unaggressive
  • unassertive
  • untroubled
  • unwarlike
  • winning
  • winsome
  • yielding

Antonyms for pacific

  • abrasive
  • aggravating
  • aggressive
  • agitated
  • agonistic
  • annoying
  • antagonistic
  • antagonizing
  • antipathetic
  • argumentative
  • assertive
  • bellicose
  • belligerent
  • bloodthirsty
  • chafing
  • combative
  • confrontational
  • contentious
  • discordant
  • engaging
  • exasperating
  • fierce
  • frustrating
  • galling
  • gladiatorial
  • hawkish
  • hostile
  • hot-tempered
  • incensing
  • inflammatory
  • infuriating
  • inhospitable
  • inimical
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • loud
  • maddening
  • martial
  • militant
  • militarist
  • militaristic
  • military
  • nagging
  • nettlesome
  • nettling
  • offensive
  • provocative
  • provoking
  • pugnacious
  • quarrelsome
  • rankling
  • riling
  • scrappy
  • truculent
  • unfriendly
  • unsympathetic
  • vexing
  • warlike

Meanings of pacific

  • adjective
    1. Calm, peaceful.
    2. Preferring peace by nature; avoiding violence.

Example Sentences

  • The pacific ocean waves gently lapped against the sandy shore, creating a soothing melody.
  • The diplomats engaged in a pacific discussion, seeking peaceful resolutions to the international conflict.
  • The sunset painted the sky in warm hues, casting a pacific glow over the tranquil landscape.
  • Residents of the small coastal town enjoyed the pacific atmosphere, free from the hustle and bustle of city life.
  • Despite the disagreement, the neighbors maintained a pacific relationship, resolving conflicts through open communication.

On this page you'll find 126 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to pacific, such as: abrasive, affable, aggravating, aggressive, agitated, agonistic, agreeable.

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Related Words

abstaining

  • abnegating
  • abnegation
  • abstemious
  • abstemiousness
  • abstinence
  • abstinent
  • adjuration
  • ascetic
  • asceticism
  • austere
  • avoidance
  • brush-off
  • calm
  • chastity
  • cherry
  • clear-headed
  • cold
  • cold shoulder
  • cold sober
  • collected
  • composed
  • constrained
  • continence
  • continent
  • contradiction
  • controlled
  • controversion
  • cool
  • dark
  • declination
  • declining
  • delaying
  • disaffirmance
  • disaffirmation
  • disallowance
  • disapproval
  • disavowal
  • disciplined
  • disclaimer
  • dismissing
  • dispassionate
  • disproof
  • dissent
  • down-to-earth
  • drab
  • dry
  • drying out
  • earnest
  • eschewing
  • fasting
  • forbearance
  • forgoing
  • forswearing
  • free of alcohol
  • frugality
  • gainsaying
  • grave
  • halting
  • hard-boiled
  • hesitating
  • imperturbable
  • inhibited
  • levelheaded
  • low-key
  • lucid
  • moderate
  • moderation
  • nay
  • negation
  • negative
  • nix
  • no-nonsense
  • non-indulgence
  • nonacceptance
  • noncommittal
  • nonindulgent
  • not drinking
  • not drunk
  • not partaking of alcohol
  • on the wagon
  • pacific
  • period of abstinence
  • plain
  • practical
  • prohibition
  • protestation
  • puritanical
  • quiet
  • rational
  • realistic
  • reasonable
  • rebuff
  • rebuttal
  • refraining
  • refusing
  • refutal
  • refutation
  • rejecting
  • rejection
  • renegement
  • renouncement
  • renunciation
  • repudiating
  • repudiation
  • repulse
  • reserved
  • restrained
  • retraction
  • sedate
  • self-control
  • self-denial
  • self-possessed
  • self-restraint
  • serene
  • serious
  • severe
  • shilly-shallying
  • sober
  • soberness
  • sobriety
  • soft
  • solemn
  • somber
  • sound
  • spartan
  • staid
  • stalling
  • statement
  • statement abnegation
  • steady
  • stone cold sober
  • strict
  • subdued
  • sworn off
  • teetotalism
  • temperance
  • temperate
  • temporizing
  • toned-down
  • took the pledge
  • turndown
  • turning down
  • unexcited
  • unimpassioned
  • unintoxicated
  • unruffled
  • vacillating
  • veto
  • waffling
  • wavering

abstinent

  • abstaining
  • abstemious
  • abstentious
  • ascetic
  • ascetical
  • austere
  • balanced
  • bearable
  • bridled
  • calm
  • careful
  • cautious
  • celibate
  • clear-headed
  • cold sober
  • compromising
  • conforming
  • conservative
  • considerate
  • considered
  • continent
  • controlled
  • cool
  • curbed
  • deliberate
  • disciplined
  • dispassionate
  • dry
  • drying out
  • equable
  • even
  • free of alcohol
  • frugal
  • gentle
  • impartial
  • inconsiderable
  • inexpensive
  • inhibited
  • judicious
  • limited
  • low-key
  • measured
  • middle-of-the-road
  • midway
  • mild
  • moderate
  • moderating
  • modest
  • monotonous
  • moral
  • neutral
  • nondrinker
  • nonindulgent
  • nonpartisan
  • not drinking
  • not drunk
  • not excessive
  • not extreme
  • not partaking of alcohol
  • on the wagon
  • one who is on the wagon
  • pacific
  • peaceable
  • period of abstinence
  • pleasant
  • priggish
  • prim
  • prissy
  • prohibitionist
  • prudish
  • puritanical
  • reasonable
  • reserved
  • restrained
  • rigid
  • sedate
  • self-abnegating
  • self-controlled
  • self-denying
  • self-disciplined
  • self-governed
  • self-possessed
  • self-restrained
  • self-restraining
  • serious
  • sober
  • soft
  • sparing
  • spartan
  • steady
  • stern
  • stone cold sober
  • straight
  • strict
  • stuffy
  • sworn off
  • tame
  • teetotaler
  • teetotalist
  • temperance advocate
  • temperate
  • tolerable
  • tolerant
  • took the pledge
  • tranquil
  • unintoxicated
  • untroubled
  • water-drinker

balmy

  • aberrant
  • absurd
  • airheaded
  • amok
  • amuck
  • ape
  • around the bend
  • asinine
  • ballistic
  • bananas
  • barmy
  • bats
  • batty
  • bedlam
  • benign
  • berserk
  • birdbrained
  • bland
  • bonkers
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • brainsick
  • bubbleheaded
  • buffering
  • buffoonish
  • bugged out
  • bughouse
  • calm
  • certifiable
  • chowderheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • clear
  • clement
  • cloudless
  • clownish
  • clueless
  • cockeyed
  • compassionate
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cuckoo
  • cushioning
  • daffy
  • daft
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • delirious
  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • dense
  • depressed
  • deranged
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • disordered
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • easy
  • eccentric
  • emollient
  • empty-headed
  • equable
  • fair
  • fallacious
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • fey
  • fine
  • fixated
  • fool
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenzied
  • fruity
  • gaga
  • genial
  • gentle
  • glorious
  • gormless
  • halcyon
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • haywire
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • inept
  • insane
  • invalid
  • irrational
  • jerky
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • lenient
  • light
  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • mad
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mellow
  • mental
  • merciful
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • mild
  • mindless
  • moderate
  • moist
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • moonstruck
  • moronic
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • nonabrasive
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • notional
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • obtuse
  • odd
  • oddball
  • off
  • opaque
  • out to lunch
  • pacific
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • peaceful
  • pinheaded
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • placid
  • pleasant
  • potty
  • preposterous
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • queer
  • quiet
  • rainless
  • raving
  • refreshing
  • ridiculous
  • sappy
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • senseless
  • serene
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sleek
  • slick
  • slow
  • slow-witted
  • smooth
  • sociopathic
  • soft
  • softening
  • softheaded
  • soothing
  • strange
  • stupid
  • summerlike
  • summery
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • surd
  • teched
  • temperate
  • tender
  • tetched
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tomfool
  • touched
  • tranquil
  • tropical
  • unbalanced
  • unconsidered
  • unhinged
  • unintelligent
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsound
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • warm
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • witless
  • wud
  • zany

calm

  • affable
  • allay
  • alleviate
  • aloof
  • amiable
  • amicable
  • appease
  • arcadian
  • assuage
  • assured
  • at a standstill
  • at peace
  • balm
  • balmy
  • becalm
  • bland
  • bovine
  • breathless
  • breezeless
  • breezy
  • bucolic
  • calmness
  • carefree
  • casualness
  • centered
  • civil
  • clear
  • clement
  • cloudless
  • collect
  • collected
  • comfort
  • comity
  • compose
  • composed
  • conciliate
  • concord
  • confident
  • consolation
  • contain
  • content
  • contentment
  • control
  • cool
  • cool as cucumber
  • cool it
  • cool out
  • cool-headed
  • coolheaded
  • dead
  • detached
  • devil-may-care
  • disciplined
  • disinterested
  • dispassion
  • dispassionate
  • doldrums
  • dull
  • ease
  • easygoing
  • easygoingness
  • equable
  • equal
  • even
  • even-keeled
  • fair
  • gentle
  • halcyon
  • happy-go-lucky
  • harmonious
  • harmony
  • heartsease
  • hold back
  • hush
  • hushed
  • impassive
  • impassivity
  • imperturbable
  • imperturbation
  • in order
  • inactive
  • indifferent
  • informality
  • inscrutable
  • kind
  • laid-back
  • laid-backness
  • lay
  • lay back
  • level
  • levelheaded
  • limpid
  • listless
  • loosey-goosey
  • low
  • low-key
  • lown
  • lull
  • lullaby
  • mellow
  • mild
  • mildness
  • mitigate
  • moderate
  • mollify
  • motionless
  • muffled
  • mute
  • muted
  • narcotize
  • nerveless
  • neutral
  • noiseless
  • nonchalant
  • pacific
  • pacify
  • pastoral
  • patience
  • patient
  • pause
  • peace
  • peace of mind
  • peaceful
  • peacefulness
  • phlegmatic
  • placate
  • placid
  • placidity
  • pleased
  • poised
  • possessed
  • quell
  • quiescent
  • quiet
  • quieted
  • quieten
  • quietness
  • quietude
  • rainless
  • rally
  • re-collect
  • recollected
  • recover
  • relax
  • relaxed
  • relaxedness
  • relief
  • relieve
  • relieved
  • repose
  • reposeful
  • reposing
  • respite
  • rest
  • restful
  • restfulness
  • restrain
  • restraint
  • rural
  • salve
  • satisfied
  • sedate
  • self-assured
  • self-composed
  • self-contained
  • self-controlled
  • self-possessed
  • serene
  • sereneness
  • serenity
  • settle
  • silence
  • silent
  • simmer down
  • slow
  • smooth
  • sober
  • soft
  • soft pedal
  • solace
  • soothe
  • soothing
  • soothingness
  • soundless
  • speechless
  • steady
  • still
  • stillness
  • stilly
  • stoicism
  • stolid
  • stormless
  • stroke
  • stupefy
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • take it easy
  • take the edge off
  • temperate
  • together
  • tranquil
  • tranquility
  • tranquilize
  • tranquilized
  • tranquillity
  • tranquillize
  • tranquillized
  • ultraquiet
  • unconcerned
  • undisturbed
  • unemotional
  • unexcitable
  • unexcited
  • unflappable
  • unimpressed
  • unmoved
  • unperturbed
  • unruffled
  • unshakable
  • unshaken
  • untroubled
  • unworried
  • waveless
  • well-adjusted
  • well-balanced
  • windless
  • wordless

kindred

  • affable
  • affiliated
  • affinity
  • agnate
  • agreeable
  • akin
  • alike
  • allied
  • amiable
  • amicable
  • analogous
  • apposite
  • apropos
  • associated
  • blended family
  • blood
  • brood
  • clan
  • clansman
  • cogent
  • cognate
  • collaborating
  • comparable
  • compatible
  • congeneric
  • congenial
  • connate
  • connatural
  • connected
  • connection
  • consanguine
  • consanguinity
  • cooperative
  • cordial
  • correspondent
  • corresponding
  • cousin
  • descendant
  • descendent
  • ditto
  • dynasty
  • extended family
  • family
  • flesh
  • folk
  • folks
  • frictionless
  • friendly
  • genial
  • germane
  • harmonious
  • homefolk
  • homogeneous
  • house
  • household
  • identical
  • incident
  • interconnected
  • interrelated
  • issue
  • joined
  • kin
  • kinfolk
  • kinfolks
  • kinsfolk
  • kinsman
  • kinsperson
  • kinswoman
  • kith
  • likable
  • like
  • line
  • lineage
  • matching
  • material
  • neighborly
  • noncompetitive
  • nonconflicting
  • nuclear family
  • offspring
  • pacific
  • parallel
  • peaceable
  • peaceful
  • people
  • pertinent
  • progeny
  • race
  • related
  • relation
  • relationship
  • relative
  • relevant
  • resemblant
  • resembling
  • same
  • scion
  • seed
  • similar
  • stock
  • such
  • suchlike
  • symbiotic
  • sympathetic
  • synergetic
  • synergic
  • tolerant
  • tribe
  • unanimous
  • uncompetitive
  • understanding
  • united

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