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comparative more peaceful or peacefuller or peacefuler, superlative most peaceful or peacefullest or peacefulest
Not at war; not disturbed by strife or turmoil. quotations examples
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.
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
Inclined to peace. examples
Motionless and calm. examples
plural peacefuls
(India, Islam, Islamophobic, Internet slang, offensive) a Muslim; especially a violent member of a radical Islamist group. quotations
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.
2021, Raghu Karnad, The Wire