Peaceable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: peace=a=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

Peaceable, a. [OE. peisible, F. paisible.].

 Begin in or at peace; tranquil; quiet; free from, or not disposed to, war, disorder, or excitement; not quarrelsome.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Peaceful; pacific; tranquil; quiet; mild; undisturbed; serene; still.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Peaceable, adj.
1 disposed to peace; unwarlike.
2 free from disturbance; peaceful.

Derivative

peaceableness n. peaceably adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF peisible, plaisible f. LL placibilis pleasing f. L placere please

THESAURUS

Peaceable

agreeable, amiable, amicable, at peace, at rest, bland, bloodless, broken, brotherly, calm, chastened, civil, civilian, cloistered, compatible, complaisant, conciliatory, concordant, congenial, cool, cordial, domesticated, dovelike, dovish, dwindling, ebbing, even-tenored, favorable, fraternal, friendlike, friendly, genial, gentle, halcyon, harmonious, housebroken, humble, hushed, idyllic, impassive, inoffensive, irenic, isolated, judicious, kind, lamblike, meek, mild, mild as milk, moderate, moldering, neighborlike, neighborly, nonaggressive, noncombatant, nonmilitant, nonviolent, orderly, pacific, pacificatory, pacifist, pacifistic, pastoral, peace-loving, peaceful, peacetime, piping, placid, pleasant, prudent, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, serene, sheltered, simpatico, sisterly, smooth, sober, sociable, soft, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subdued, subsiding, sympathique, tame, tamed, temperate, tranquil, unagitated, unbellicose, uncontentious, undisturbed, unhostile, unmilitant, unmilitary, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, waning, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant

ROGET THESAURUS

Peaceable

Peace

N peace, amity, harmony, tranquility, calm, truce, peace treaty, accord, peace pipe, pipe of peace, calumet of peace, piping time of peace, quiet life, neutrality, dove of peace, white dove, dove, pax Romana, Pax Americana, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, calm, tranquil, untroubled, halcyon, bloodless, neutral, dovish, the storm blown over, the lion lies down with the lamb, all quiet on the Potomac, paritur pax bello, peace hath her victories no less renowned than war, they make a desert and they call it peace.

Moderation

N moderation, lenity, temperateness, gentleness, sobriety, quiet, mental calmness, moderating, anaphrodisia, relaxation, remission, mitigation, tranquilization, assuagement, contemporation, pacification, measure, juste milieu, golden mean, ariston metron, moderator, lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum, rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, poppy or mandragora, wet blanket, palliative, moderate, lenient, gentle, mild, mellow, cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured, tempered, calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still, slow, smooth, untroubled, tame, peaceful, peaceable, pacific, halcyon, unexciting, unirritating, soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne, hypnotic, sedative, antiorgastic, anaphrodisiac, mild as mother's milk, milk and water, moderately, gingerly, piano, under easy sail, at half speed, within bounds, within compass, in reason, est modue in rebus, pour oil on troubled waters.