pacification

The word “pacification” has 5 syllables: pa-ci-fi-ca-tion

It's pronounced as /ˌpæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/


What is synonym and antonym for pacification?

In the thesaurus, “pacification” has 45 synonyms and 29 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for pacification

  • accord
  • amity
  • armistice
  • arms limitation
  • arms reduction
  • calm
  • cessation
  • conciliation
  • concord
  • conquest
  • crippling
  • de-escalation
  • demilitarization
  • demobilization
  • disablement
  • disqualification
  • freeze
  • friendship
  • harmony
  • love
  • neutrality
  • neutralizing
  • nonagression
  • occupation
  • order
  • pacifism
  • paralyzing
  • passiveness
  • passivity
  • peace
  • peaceableness
  • peacefulness
  • quiet
  • reconciliation
  • rendering powerless
  • serenity
  • stability
  • subjugation
  • tranquility
  • tranquillity
  • treaty
  • truce
  • unanimity
  • union
  • unity

Antonyms for pacification

  • action
  • agitation
  • arming
  • battle
  • buildup
  • combat
  • conflict
  • contention
  • disagreement
  • discord
  • disharmony
  • dissidence
  • distress
  • fighting
  • frustration
  • hate
  • hatred
  • strife
  • surrender
  • trouble
  • tumult
  • turmoil
  • unrest
  • upheaval
  • upset
  • war
  • warfare
  • worry
  • yielding

Example Sentences

  • The village elders hoped for a swift pacification of tensions to restore harmony among the community.
  • The government implemented a comprehensive plan for the pacification of regions affected by civil unrest.
  • International organizations collaborated to support the pacification efforts in conflict-stricken areas.
  • The success of the peace talks marked a significant milestone in the ongoing pacification process.
  • The general outlined a strategy for the gradual pacification of the war-torn territories.

On this page you'll find 74 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to pacification, such as: accord, action, agitation, amity, arming, armistice, arms limitation.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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neutralizing

  • abrogating
  • acrid
  • adverse
  • against
  • alkalescent
  • alkali
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • antacid
  • antagonistic
  • anti
  • arms limitation
  • arms reduction
  • assassinating
  • baffling
  • balking
  • balky
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  • blocking
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • bumping off
  • butchering
  • carrying off
  • caulking
  • caustic
  • claiming
  • colorless
  • con
  • conquest
  • contrary
  • contravening
  • cording
  • correcting
  • counteracting
  • counteractive
  • counterbalancing
  • counterpoising
  • covering
  • crippling
  • croaking
  • cushioning
  • cutting down
  • cynical
  • de-escalation
  • defending
  • demilitarization
  • demobilization
  • denying
  • destroying
  • deterrent
  • deterring
  • detrimental
  • disablement
  • disallowing
  • disavowing
  • dispatching
  • disqualification
  • dissentient
  • dissenting
  • doing away with
  • doing in
  • eliminating
  • eradicating
  • executing
  • exterminating
  • felling
  • foiling
  • freeze
  • frustrating
  • furring
  • gainsaying
  • getting
  • gloomy
  • hampering
  • hindering
  • icing
  • impeding
  • impugning
  • invalidating
  • isolating
  • jaundiced
  • killing
  • knocking off
  • lining
  • liquidating
  • massacring
  • murdering
  • naysaying
  • negating
  • negativing
  • neutering
  • nugatory
  • nullifying
  • occupation
  • offing
  • offsetting
  • opposing
  • outbalancing
  • outweighing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • pacification
  • packing
  • padding
  • paralyzing
  • pessimistic
  • precautionary
  • preventative
  • preventive
  • privative
  • prophylactic
  • protecting
  • putting away
  • recusant
  • redeeming
  • redressing
  • refusing
  • rejecting
  • relieving
  • remedying
  • removed
  • rendering powerless
  • repugnant
  • resisting
  • resistive
  • retardant
  • rubbing out
  • salty
  • shooting
  • shooting down
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • smiting
  • snuffing
  • soluble
  • stalling
  • subjugation
  • surrounding
  • taking out
  • taping
  • terminating
  • thwarting
  • unaffirmative
  • unenthusiastic
  • unfavorable
  • uninterested
  • unwilling
  • weak
  • whacking
  • wiping out
  • zapping

paralyzing

  • acute
  • agonizing
  • amazing
  • arms limitation
  • arms reduction
  • astounding
  • attenuating
  • biting
  • breathtaking
  • conquest
  • crazing
  • crippling
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • daunting
  • de-escalation
  • debilitating
  • demilitarization
  • demobilization
  • demoralizing
  • deranging
  • devastating
  • disablement
  • disabling
  • discomposing
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • disqualification
  • disquieting
  • distinct
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • drilling
  • emasculating
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • exciting
  • excruciating
  • eye-opening
  • fazing
  • fierce
  • freeze
  • frightening
  • hamstringing
  • hobbling
  • immobilizing
  • incapacitating
  • intimidating
  • keen
  • knifelike
  • knocking out
  • laming
  • maddening
  • maiming
  • mind-boggling
  • mutilating
  • neutering
  • neutralizing
  • occupation
  • overcoming
  • pacification
  • painful
  • penetrating
  • perturbing
  • piercing
  • prostrating
  • rendering powerless
  • sapping
  • scaring
  • shattering
  • shooting
  • smart
  • softening
  • sore
  • stabbing
  • staggering
  • stinging
  • stunning
  • subjugation
  • terrifying
  • terrorizing
  • tiring
  • unbalancing
  • undercutting
  • undermining
  • undoing
  • unhinging
  • unmanning
  • unnerving
  • unsettling
  • unstringing
  • upsetting
  • vast
  • violent
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • weirding out

pacifism

  • accord
  • affability
  • amenability
  • amiability
  • amicability
  • amity
  • anti-imperialism
  • antiaggression
  • antimilitarism
  • armistice
  • benevolence
  • cessation
  • complaisance
  • conciliation
  • concord
  • cordiality
  • friendliness
  • friendship
  • geniality
  • gentleness
  • graciousness
  • kindliness
  • love
  • mildness
  • neutrality
  • nonaggression
  • nonagression
  • nonviolence
  • order
  • pacification
  • pacificism
  • passiveness
  • passivity
  • peaceableness
  • placability
  • pleasantness
  • reconciliation
  • sociability
  • treaty
  • truce
  • unanimity
  • union
  • unity

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