Irenic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Irenic \I*ren"ic\, Irenical \I*ren"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?.]
     Fitted or designed to promote peace; pacific; conciliatory;
     peaceful. --Bp. Hall.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  irenic
       adj : conducive to peace; "irenic without being namby-pamby"; "an
             irenic attitude toward former antagonists"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "irenic":
     appeasing, civilian, conciliatory, dovish, mollifying,
     nonaggressive, noncombatant, nonmilitant, nonviolent, pacific,
     pacificatory, pacifist, pacifistic, pacifying, peace-loving,
     peaceable, peaceful, placative, placatory, propitiative,
     propitiatory, reconciliatory, soothing, unbellicose, uncontentious,
     unhostile, unmilitant, unmilitary