Peaceful Meaning

/ˈpiːsfl̩/
B1

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adjNot at war; not disturbed by strife or turmoil.

adjInclined to peace.

The countries concerned settled the dispute by peaceful means.
We must preserve our peaceful constitution.
Antonyms:
CEFR Practice Quiz
The lake was so ____ that you could hear the birds from far away.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The village was a ____ place where residents rarely locked their doors at night.

From Middle English peesful, pesful, paisful, pesefull. By surface analysis, peace + -ful.

"Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful." — 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
"Attractive cottages look out on a scene so peaceful that lapping wavelets, stirred by the breeze, are often the loudest sound to be heard." — 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 220, about Hanmer, Wales:
"They only have to use a bit of code to name those people; nowadays they call them “peacefuls”. A smirking euphemism is all it takes to sail through Twitter’s filter, and keep the hate-speech flowing." — 2021, Raghu Karnad, The Wire:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
The lake was so ____ that you could hear the birds from far away.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The village was a ____ place where residents rarely locked their doors at night.

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