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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | placid, yielding |
| Synonyms: | appeasing, assuaging, calm, civil, disarming, irenic, mollifying, pacific, peaceable, placating, placatory, propitiative, quiet, willing |
| Antonyms: | antagonistic, fighting, refusing, stubborn |
| Main Entry: | complaisant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agreeable |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, amiable, compliant, conciliatory, deferential, easy, easy-going, friendly, generous, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, indulgent, lenient, mild, obliging, polite, solicitous, submissive |
| Notes: | complacent means 'pleased or satisfied with how things are, with how they affect one's self,' 'self-satisfied, smug'; complaisant means 'attempting or eager to please or satisfy,' 'obliging, affable' - complacent thus refers to a state of mind and complaisant to a disposition to behave or conduct oneself in a way that pleases or satisfies others |
| Antonyms: | antagonistic, disagreeable, discontented, dissatisfied, obstinate |
| Main Entry: | diplomatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | politic, tactful |
| Synonyms: | adept, arch, artful, astute, bland, brainy, cagey, calculating, capable, clever, conciliatory, conniving, contriving, courteous, crafty, cunning, deft, delicate, dexterous, discreet, gracious, guileful, intriguing, opportunistic, polite, prudent, savvy, scheming, sensitive, sharp, shrewd, sly, smooth, strategic, suave, subtle, wily |
| Antonyms: | artless, impolite, rude, tactless |
| Main Entry: | friendly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intimate, companionable |
| Synonyms: | affable, affectionate, amiable, amicable, attached, attentive, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, benign, buddy-buddy, chummy, civil, close, clubby, comradely, conciliatory, confiding, convivial, cordial, faithful, familiar, favorable, fond, genial, good, helpful, kind, kindly, loving, loyal, neighborly, on good terms, outgoing, peaceable, peaceful, propitious, receptive, sociable, solicitous, sympathetic, tender, thick, welcoming, well-disposed |
| Antonyms: | aloof, antagonistic, cold, cool, incompatible, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unreceptive, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | halfway |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | not complete; in the middle |
| Synonyms: | comparatively, compromising, conciliatory, half the distance, imperfectly, in part, incompletely, insufficiently, medially, middling, midway, moderately, nearly, partially, partly, pretty*, rather, restrictedly, to a degree, to some extent, to the middle, unsatisfactorily |
| Antonyms: | completely, totally, wholly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pacific |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appeasing, peaceful |
| Synonyms: | amicable, at peace, calm, conciliatory, diplomatic, friendly, gentle, neutral, peace-loving, peaceable, peacemaking, placatory, placid, quiet, serene, tranquil, untroubled |
| Main Entry: | peaceable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, serene |
| Synonyms: | amiable, amicable, calm, complacent, conciliatory, gentle, irenic, mild, neighborly, nonviolent, pacific, pacificatory, pacifist, peace-loving, peaceful, placid, quiet, restful, still, tranquil |
| Notes: | peaceful means 'characterized by peace, in a state of peace or tranquility'; peaceable means 'disposed toward peace, inclined toward peacefulness' |
| Antonyms: | belligerent, cold, cool, mean, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | polite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mannerly, civilized |
| Synonyms: | affable, amenable, amiable, attentive, bland, civil, complaisant, concerned, conciliatory, condescending, considerate, cordial, courteous, courtly, cultured, deferential, diplomatic, elegant, friendly, genteel, gentle, good-natured, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, obliging, obsequious, pleasant, polished, politic, punctilious, refined, respectful, smooth, sociable, solicitous, sympathetic, thoughtful, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered |
| Antonyms: | impolite, rude, uncivil, uncivilized, unmannerly, unrefined, unsophisticated |
| Main Entry: | sacrificial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | atoning |
| Synonyms: | conciliatory, divine, expiatory, propitiatory, sacrificing |
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