Antonyms for pacific

Grammar : Adj

Spell : puh-sif-ik

Phonetic Transcription : pəˈsɪf ɪk

Definition of pacific

Origin : 1540s, "tending to make peace," from Middle French pacifique, from Latin pacificus "peaceful, peace-making," from pax (genitive pacis) "peace" (see peace) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Meaning "peaceful, calm" is first recorded 1630s. Related: Pacifical (mid-15c.); pacifically.

adj appeasing, peaceful

Example sentences :

She sat quietly looking at the Pacific and thinking her own thoughts.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

The roaring winds of the Pacific make you drunk to begin with.
Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling

It washes its face in the Atlantic, and its feet in the Pacific.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 4, April 23, 1870 » by Various

They did not talk to each other on the Pacific coast about it.
Extract from : « Latin America and the United States » by Elihu Root

He'd been in the Pacific a while, they say, and was a Jack-of-all-trades in America.
Extract from : « The House Under the Sea » by Sir Max Pemberton

The day had broken by this time, quick and beautiful as ever in the Pacific Ocean.
Extract from : « The House Under the Sea » by Sir Max Pemberton

You, I believed, were away in the Pacific, where all things beautiful should be.
Extract from : « The House Under the Sea » by Sir Max Pemberton

It's a garden land,' said I, 'a sunny haven in this good Pacific sea.'
Extract from : « The House Under the Sea » by Sir Max Pemberton

But he was very anxious that the Consolidated Pacific people should think he had.
Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Industry and knowledge and the pacific arts of life were making progress.
Extract from : « The Balladists » by John Geddie

Synonyms for pacific

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