irenic
Adjective Satellite
- conducive to peace
- "irenic without being namby-pamby"
- "an irenic attitude toward former antagonists"
Adj
- Promoting or fitted to promote peace or peacemaking, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful.
Adjective
- Promoting peace or conciliation; peaceful.
Examples
- An irenic approach to Scrabble involves less challenging and more strategic word placement.
Origin / Etymology
From Ancient Greek εἰρηνικός (eirēnikós, “characterized by peace, peaceful”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). Εἰρηνικός (Eirēnikós) is derived from εἰρήνη (eirḗnē, “peace”) (possibly from εἴρω (eírō, “to fasten together”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“(verb) to bind, tie together; (noun) thread”)), or εἴρω (eírō, “to say, speak”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”))) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’).
Synonyms
anti-bellicist, dovelike, dovish, irenic, irenical, non-violent, nonpolemic, nonpolemical, pacific, pacifist, pacifistic, peaceable, peaceful, unaggressive
Antonyms
calm, contentious, disputatious, mediational, nonargumentative, peaceable, polemic, polemical, unargumentative, unirenic, unquarrelsome
Scrabble Score: 8
irenic: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordirenic: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
irenic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary