mild, easy-going, good-natured, imperturbable, even tempered, temperate; compatible, agreeable, cooperative, easy to get along with, congenial, genial, affable, amiable, amicable, friendly, pleasant, nice, cordial, civil; patient, forbearing, clement, merciful, lenient, forgiving, giving in; acquiescent, compliant, consentient, consentaneous, passive, meek, lamblike, nonresistant, obedient, docile, tame.
2. pacificatory, peacemaking, conciliatory; propitiatory, propitiative, appeasing, mollifying, placating, soothing, calming; mediatory, negotiating, arbitrating, diplomatic.
3. tranquil, serene, calm; still, becalmed, restful. See - peaceful (def. 1).
peaceful, adj. 1. tranquil, calm, serene, placid, quiescent, halcyon, restful, at rest, reposeful, at peace; still, quiet, becalmed, inactive, motionless, stationary; unagitated, undisturbed, unruffled, stormless, wave-less, windless.
2. peacetime, warless, untroubled, normal; during a cease-fire or truce or armistice.
3. pacific, peace-loving, nonviolent; gentle, mild-mannered, easy-going; compatible, agreeable, amicable. See - peaceable (def. 1).
peacefulness, n. 1. tranquillity, tranquilness, calmness, calm; peace of mind, ataraxia, contentment; quiet, silence, quiescence, stillness. See - peace (defs. 4, 5).
2. peacetime, peace, nonwar, warlessness, time of normality; truce, armistice, cease-fire, suspension or cessation of hostilities, end of war.
3. peaceableness, pacificism, dovishness, nonviolence, opposition to war; neutrality, nonbelligerent status, conscientious objector status.
peacemaker, n. pacificator, pacifier, makepeace, reconciler, conciliator, propitiator, appeaser, placater; negotiator, diplomat, ambassador; interposer, inter-ceder, intercessor, intervener, referee, umpire; arbiter, arbitrator, adjudicator, mediator, mediatress, mediatrix, intermediary, intermediator, middleman, go-between.
peace offering, n. 1. sacrifice, sacrificial offering, burnt offering, offering, holocaust, immolation, propitiation; homage, tribute, oblation, libation, Eccles. offertory.
2. peace pipe, calumet, olive branch, white flag, Mil. flag of truce; inducement, bribe, sop, lure, reward.
peacock, n. 1. egoist, egotist, Inf. swellhead; braggart, braggadocio, boaster, Inf. brag, Inf. bullshooter, SI. blowhard, SI. loud mouth, SI. big mouth; strutter, swaggerer, poseur.
2. fop, dandy, beau, jack-a-dandy, coxcomb; spark, dude, SI. swell, Brit, toff; Beau Brummel, fancy Dan, SI. bantam cock, SI. glamour puss; exquisite, Hist. macaroni, silk-stocking, clothes horse; popinjay, la-di-da; pompous ass, cock of the walk; prig, prinker, pret-ty-boy, Archaic, carpet knight; blade, sophisticate, gallant, cavalier; ladies' man, lady killer, SI. lounge lizard; zoot suiter, sharp dresser.
peak1, n. 1. pinnacle, summit, tor, crest, ridge, needle, mountaintop; alp, promontory, headland, cliff, precipice, crag, bluff; mountain, elevation, eminence, hill.
2. apex, vertex, apogee, tip, tiptop; spire, steeple, cupola; top, head, headpiece, cap, crown, cusp, cuspid.
3. acme, zenith, meridian, maximum, climax, culmination, crowning point, Latin, ne plus ultra', sublimity, supremacy, perfection, consummation, best, finest, extreme, utmost, uttermost, U.S. SI. the most, U.S. SI. the greatest; prime, heyday, bloom, full flower, blossom, efflorescence.