- 1not involving or causing argument or violence synonym peaceful A peaceable settlement has been reached.
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- 2not liking to argue; wishing to live in peace with others synonym calm, peaceful a peaceable character I like to think of myself as a peaceable man. They sat in peaceable silence. (= they were not arguing).
NAmE//ˈpisəbli//
adverbSee peaceable in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: peaceable