peaceful
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Synonyms & Antonyms for peaceful
Synonyms
dovish, pacific, pacifist (or pacifistic), peaceable
Antonyms
bloodthirsty, hawkish, martial, warlike
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New Delhi initially grappled with largely peaceful anti-India movements in its portion of Kashmir. — Washington Post, "Kashmiris allege night terror by Indian troops in crackdown," 12 Sep. 2019 Hobie offers a peaceful refuge within the epic world of The Goldfinch. — David Canfield, EW.com, "Jeffrey Wright on finding the soul of Hobie (and New York) in The Goldfinch," 11 Sep. 2019 On April 13, 1919, British troops fired without warning on a peaceful protest of thousands of unarmed Indians in Amritsar, in the northern state of Punjab, in what became known as the Amritsar or Jallianwala Bagh massacre. — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, "Archbishop of Canterbury prostrates himself at Amritsar massacre memorial," 11 Sep. 2019 Walmart employees are instructed not to obstruct peaceful shoppers from openly carrying guns in the stores. — Michael Corkery, New York Times, "Retailers Walk Thin Line by Asking, Not Telling, Shoppers Not to Carry Guns," 9 Sep. 2019 Earlier on Sunday, several hundred opponents of the Pride march held a peaceful meeting and a walk, carrying placards condemning homosexuality. — NBC News, "Bosnians march in first Gay Pride under tight police protection," 9 Sep. 2019 What began as peaceful protests over a bill that would allow people in the semiautonomous territory to be deported to mainland China for trial has become a fight for liberal versus authoritarian values. — Los Angeles Times, "‘The whole system is rotten. We want to tear it down’: Hong Kong protests blaze on," 8 Sep. 2019 Ordinary citizens who earlier favored strictly peaceful demonstrations increasingly see the confrontations as both legitimate and necessary to bring about change. — The Christian Science Monitor, "Giving brushoffs the brushoff," 5 Sep. 2019 Not only were the protests peaceful but Mr Zhukov was misidentified in a video used by the police. — The Economist, "Repression in Russia no longer works as well as it did," 5 Sep. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'peaceful.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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