peaceful
/ˈpiːsfl̩/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Motionless and calm.
noun
A non-player character who is not hostile to the player.
Example Sentences
- "peaceful protest"
- "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."
- "Attractive cottages look out on a scene so peaceful that lapping wavelets, stirred by the breeze, are often the loudest sound to be heard."
- "You can trade with some of the peacefuls in the town area."
- "They only have to use a bit of code to name those people; nowadays they call them “peacefuls”. A smirking euphemism is all it takes to sail through Twitter’s filter, and keep the hate-speech flowing."
Etymology
From Middle English peesful, pesful, paisful, pesefull. By surface analysis, peace + -ful. Displaced native Old English friþsum.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: peesful
Usage
Inflected Forms
more peaceful (comparative)
peacefuller (comparative)
peacefuler (comparative)
most peaceful (superlative)
peacefullest (superlative)
peacefulest (superlative)
peacefull (alternative, archaic)
peacefuls (plural)