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Pacific Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Pacific?
[n] the largest ocean in the world
[adj] promoting peace; "the result of this pacific policy was that no troops were called up" [adj] 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" [adj] relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean; "Pacific islands" Synonyms | Synonyms for Pacific: Pacific Ocean | peaceable | peaceful Related Terms | Find terms related to Pacific: appeasing | at peace | at rest | bloodless | broken | calm | chastened | civilian | cloistered | conciliatory | concordant | cool | domesticated | dovelike | dovish | dwindling | ebbing | even-tenored | gentle | halcyon | housebroken | humble | hushed | idyllic | impassive | irenic | isolated | lamblike | meek | mild | moldering | mollifying | nonaggressive | noncombatant | nonmilitant | nonviolent | orderly | pacificatory | pacifist | pacifistic | pacifying | pastoral | peaceable | peaceful | peace-loving | peacetime | piping | placative | placatory | placid | propitiative | propitiatory | quiescent | quiet | reconciliatory | reposeful | reposing | restful | resting | secluded | sequestered | sequestrated | serene | sheltered | smooth | soft | soothing | still | still as death | stillish | stilly | stoic | stolid | subdued | subsiding | tame | tamed | tranquil | unagitated | unbellicose | uncontentious | undisturbed | unhostile | unmilitant | unmilitary | unmoved | unperturbed | unruffled | unstirring | untroubled | waning See Also | Aleutian Islands | Aleutians | Antarctic Ocean | Australasia | Austronesia | battle of the Philippine Sea | Belau | Bering Sea | Catalina Island | Coral Sea | East China Sea | East Indies | Guadalupe Island | Gulf of Alaska | Gulf of Tehuantepec | invasion of Iwo | Iwo | Iwo Jima | Japan | Japanese Archipelago | Japanese Islands | Malay Archipelago | New Guinea | New Zealand | ocean | Oceania | Oceanica | Osaka Bay | Palau | Palau Islands | Papua | Pelew | Philippine Islands | Philippine Sea | Philippines | Puget Sound | San Diego Bay | San Francisco Bay | Santa Catalina | Sea of Japan | Sea of Okhotsk | South China Sea | Wake | Wake Island | Yellow Sea Pacific In Webster's Dictionary \Pa*cif"ic\, a. [L. pacificus: cf. F. pacifique. See
{Pacify}.]
Of or pertaining to peace; suited to make or restore peace;
of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome;
conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or
condition.
{Pacific Ocean}, the ocean between America and Asia, so
called by Magellan, its first European navigator, on
account of the exemption from violent tempests which he
enjoyed while sailing over it; -- called also, simply, the
{Pacific}, and, formerly, the {South sea}.
Syn: Peacemaking; appeasing; conciliatory; tranquil; calm;
quiet; peaceful; reconciling; mild; gentle.
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