pacific

5 definitions found

pacific - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pacific \Pacific\ prop. n.
     The Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean.
  
     Syn: Pacific Ocean.
          [WordNet 1.5]

  pacific \pa*cif"ic\, a. [L. pacificus: cf. F. pacifique. See
     Pacify.]
     Of or pertaining to peace; of a peaceful character; not
     warlike; not quarrelsome; as, a pacific nature or condition.
     [WordNet sense 3]
  
     Syn: peaceable.
          [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Promoting peace; suited to make or restore peace;
        conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts. [WordNet sense 1]
  
     Syn: irenic.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     3. of or pertaining to the Pacific Ocean; as, Pacific
        islands.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Peacemaking; appeasing; conciliatory; tranquil; calm;
          quiet; peaceful; reconciling; mild; gentle.
          [1913 Webster]

pacific - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Pacific
      adj 1: relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean; "Pacific
             islands"
      2: 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" [syn: pacific, peaceable]
      3: promoting peace; "the result of this pacific policy was that
         no troops were called up"
      n 1: the largest ocean in the world [syn: Pacific, Pacific Ocean
           ]

pacific - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Pacific, MO (city, FIPS 55910)
    Location: 38.47833 N, 90.75292 W
    Population (1990): 4350 (1811 housing units)
    Area: 8.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 63069
  Pacific, WA (city, FIPS 52495)
    Location: 47.26575 N, 122.24672 W
    Population (1990): 4622 (1815 housing units)
    Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 98047

pacific - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, peace-loving, peaceable,
     peaceful, 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