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irenical

irenical adjective: synonym of irenic (“promoting or fitted to promote peace, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful”).

Adjective

irenical (comparative more irenical, superlative most irenical)

  1. Synonym of irenic (“promoting or fitted to promote peace, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful”).
    • [Andrew Marvell's] irenical moral is the interdependence, if insurmountable quarrelsomeness, of both elements in man's divided nature, rather as in a stormy marriage.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin Books, published 2004, page 40
    Synonyms:
    irenic

Synonyms of irenical

Forms of irenical

comparativemore irenical
superlativemost irenical

Origin of irenical

From irenic + -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’).

Words formed from irenical

Questions about irenical

What does irenical mean?
Irenical means synonym of irenic (“promoting or fitted to promote peace, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful”).
What part of speech is irenical?
Irenical is an adjective.

Words near irenical in the dictionary

  1. irene
  2. irenes
  3. Irengba
  4. Irengbam
  5. irenic
  6. irenical
  7. irenically
  8. irenicism
  9. irenicisms
  10. irenicist
  11. irenicists

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