Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Serving to make or restore peace; adapted to reconcile differences; peace-making; conciliatory; mild; appeasing: as, to offer pacific propositions to a belligerent power.
- Peaceful; not warlike: as, a man of pacific disposition.
- Characterized by peace or calm; calm; tranquil: as, a pacific state of things.
- [capitalized] Appellative of the ocean lying between the west coast of America and the east coast of Asia: so called on account of the exemption from violent, tempests which early navigators supposed it to enjoy; hence, relating to or connected with that ocean.
- =Syn. 1-3. Pacific, Peaceable, Peaceful, gentle, quiet, smooth, unruffled. Pacific, making or desiring to make peace; peaceable, desiring to be at peace, free from the disposition to quarrel; peaceful, in a state of peace.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome
- adj. Promoting peace; suited to make or restore peace; conciliatory.
- adj. of or pertaining to the Pacific Ocean.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature
- n. the largest ocean in the world
- adj. relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean
- adj. promoting peace
Etymologies
- From Middle French pacifique. (Wiktionary)
- French pacifique, from Old French pacifice, from Latin pācificus : pāx, pāc-, peace; see pag- in Indo-European roots + -ficus, -fic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It could be very significant, however, but they don't anticipate that it's going to be moving out throughout the pacific, and so it won't be what we call a pacific wide tsunami.”
“So with warships he and his allies established what he called a pacific blockade on Venezuelan ports.”
“So, which is it, global warming causeing snow storms on the east coast or unusually warm weather in pacific North West?”
“But the pacific is only a miniseries, so it's not really fair to compare other tv series to that.”
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“Ask anyone that fought in pacific if they would have wanted to root japs out of caves without a flame thrower!!!”
“Americanism, untainted and unvarnished by a hyphen or an "ism," especially when the word pacific precedes the latter.”
“person" but yet in 1886 in Southern pacific v Santa Clara County, Corporations were declared”
“Getting across the pacific is a big 24 hour fixed cost followed by jet lag.”
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“Prete Goy Era · May 20th, 2004 at 10:29 pm ariela, mamash atsuv. the pic did look kinda tropical - or pacific, which is the next best place to the autobahn to drive a porsche boxter?”
“-- Such sacrifices, therefore, as were offered either on occasion of blessings received, or to obtain new favours, were called pacific or peace offerings.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pacific’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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GRE Study guide
Going through the Magoosh website, words I pulled from the verbal section. 2012.
magnanimous, correlate, anglicized, simulacrum, tantamount, obsequiousness, subterfuge, vehement, vociferous, benign, concomitant, veracity and 83 more...
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UO Digi-Scholars List
A list of words for creating a new name for the U of O Digital Scholars Group.
oregon, northwest, cascadia, pacific, collaboratory, consortium, community, interdisciplinary, research, scholars, scholarly, media and 12 more...
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fasten-ating
a reflection on the Indo-European root pag & pak to fasten
peace, pay, patio, fay, fang, impact, pax, newfangled, pagan, peasant, pectin, spinto and 58 more...
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The Gentle Life
Words relating to quiet, inactivity, peace.
desuetude, languor, halcyon, placidness, quiescent, elysian, relaxation, meditation, lassitude, hiatus, respite, pacific and 16 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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Pretty Words
Words that sound pretty.
ethereal, ephemeral, iridescent, shimmer, wisp, whisper, charisma, crescent, azure, mystery, fantasy, miracle and 142 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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My GRE
concomitant, mendacity, corollary, mandate, ascertain, exacerbate, substantiate, perennial, exemplify, hegemony, acrimonious, repertoire and 653 more...
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acrimony, verisimilitude, tenebrious, tenebrous, dishabille, unfettered, deplorable, woebegone, credulity, naïveté, mitigate, meliorate and 475 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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Test-words
rarefy, occlude, bolt, lambaste, career, careen, largesse, enormity, neologism, quizzical, sibyl, euphony and 105 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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European World Systems
europe, colonization, defense, barter, feudalism, gunpowder, technology, guns, domination, lords, monarchs, transition and 250 more...
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