Peaceful vs Lenient - What's the difference?
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Not at war or disturbed by strife or turmoil.
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Motionless and calm.
Lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.
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Peaceful is a related term of lenient.
As adjectives the difference between peaceful and lenient
is that peaceful is not at war or disturbed by strife or turmoil while lenient is lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.As a noun lenient is
(medicine) a lenitive; an emollient.peaceful
English
Alternative forms
* peacefull (archaic)Adjective
(en-adj)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
Synonyms
* (inclined to peace) peaceable, pacific * (quiet) tranquil, placidAntonyms
* nonpeaceful * belligerent * violent * warringDerived terms
* peaceful coexistence * peacefully * peacefulnesslenient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The standard is fairly lenient , so use your discretion.
- But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master; I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character; to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad.