Pacific
Adjective:
- Promoting peace; peaceful in character or intent: Describes actions, policies, or dispositions that aim to create or maintain peace, avoiding conflict or aggression.
- Calm, tranquil: Describes a state or person that is serene and not easily agitated.
- Relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean: Pertaining to the geographical area of the world's largest ocean.
Proper noun:
- The Pacific Ocean: The largest and deepest ocean on Earth, lying between the Americas to the east and Asia and Australia to the west.
Adjective:
- The ambassador's pacific words helped to ease the tensions between the two nations.
- She has a remarkably pacific temperament, rarely getting angry.
- They studied the unique ecosystems of the pacific islands.
Proper noun:
- The explorer sailed across the Pacific.
- Many species migrate across the vast expanse of the Pacific.
"pacific overtures": Peaceful or conciliatory approaches or gestures made to resolve a conflict.
- The government made pacific overtures to the rebel group, hoping to start negotiations.
"pacific blockade": (Historical/Legal) A blockade established by a nation not at war, intended to enforce a demand peacefully.
- The pacific blockade was used to pressure the country into repaying its debts.
Pacificism/Pacifism (n): The belief that war and violence are unjustifiable and that all disputes should be settled by peaceful means.
- His pacifism led him to become a conscientious objector.
Pacificist/Pacifist (n/adj): A person who believes in pacifism; opposed to war or violence.
- The pacifist activist organized a peaceful protest.
Pacificatory (adj, less common): Having the quality of making peace; conciliatory.
- His role was to deliver a pacificatory message.
- Peaceful: Favoring or characterized by peace.
- Conciliatory: Intended or likely to placate or pacify.
- Dovish: Advocating peaceful or conciliatory policies, especially in foreign affairs.
- Tranquil: Free from disturbance; calm.
- Bellicose: Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.
- Belligerent: Hostile and aggressive.
- Warlike: Characteristic of or prepared for war.
"Pacific Rim": The countries and landmasses bordering the Pacific Ocean, often considered as a socio-economic or geopolitical region.
- Trade among Pacific Rim nations has increased significantly.
"Cross the Pacific": To travel or voyage across the Pacific Ocean.
- It took weeks for the ship to cross the Pacific.
- promoting peace
- the result of this pacific policy was that no troops were called up
- disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature
- the pacific temper seeks to settle disputes on grounds of justice rather than by force
- a quiet and peaceable person
- in a peaceable and orderly manner
- relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean
- Pacific islands
- the largest ocean in the world