eirenic

Adjective

irenic (comparative more irenic, superlative most irenic)

1. Promoting or fitted to promote peace or peacemaking, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful.
   • Plato and the Athenians must have felt almost as uncomfortable with Xenophon's irenic intervention as one feels at times in an argument when—just as the point in dispute, precisely by being brought to a head, begins to be interesting—a helpful third party kindly takes it upon himself to reconcile...1989 [1830 October 30], Søren Kierkegaard, translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University...

   Synonyms:

   irenical, nonpolemic, nonpolemical, pacific, anti-bellicist, dovelike, dovish, non-violent, pacifist, pacifistic

   Antonyms:

   contentious, disputatious, polemic, polemical, unirenic, agonistic, argumentative, bangsome, bellicose, belligerent