mindmap root((和平)) pacific applies chiefly to persons or to utterances, acts, influences, or ideas that tend to maintain peace and conciliate strife: adopted a ~ attitude at the conference. peaceable stresses enjoyment of peace as a way of life and may imply absence of any intent to behave aggressively: a ~ gathering. peaceful suggests absence of strife or contention as well as of all disturbing influences: ~ solution. irenic often used in relation to religious controversy, may describe attitudes and measures likely to allay dispute: issued an ~ interpretation of the canon. pacifist stresses opposition, and especially active opposition, to war or violence, typically on moral or conscientious grounds: a ~ group on the campus. pacifistic is close to pacifist, but ordinarily applies only to things: a determinedly ~ outlook.