Adjective: peaceful
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | peacefuller; peacefuler |
| Superlative | peacefullest; peacefulest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more peaceful |
| Superlative | most peaceful |
Sample Sentences
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peaceful protest
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Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful. [2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:]
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Attractive cottages look out on a scene so peaceful that lapping wavelets, stirred by the breeze, are often the loudest sound to be heard. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 220, about Hanmer, Wales:]
Etymology
From Middle English peesful, pesful, paisful, pesefull. By surface analysis, peace + -ful. Displaced native Old English friþsum.