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pacifically

pacifically adverb: in a calm or quiet manner.

Adverb

pacifically (comparative more pacifically, superlative most pacifically)

  1. In a calm or quiet manner.
    • The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194
  2. In a soothing manner.
    • To arrange and compose pacifically, the differences which may arise between the Federal States; and, should the same not succeed, to point out to the Supreme Chief the measures which should be adopted to re-establish peace and harmony […]1828, British and Foreign State Papers, page 962
    Synonyms:
    soothingly

Synonyms of pacifically

Forms of pacifically

comparativemore pacifically
superlativemost pacifically

Origin of pacifically

From pacific + -ally.

Questions about pacifically

What does pacifically mean?
Pacifically means in a calm or quiet manner.
What part of speech is pacifically?
Pacifically is an adverb.

Words near pacifically in the dictionary

  1. Pacifica
  2. pacificacion
  3. pacificae
  4. pacifical
  5. pacifical letters
  6. pacifically
  7. Pacifican
  8. Pacificans
  9. pacificate
  10. pacificated
  11. pacificates

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