"Peaceful " meaning

[Marwan Belal]

There was a confusion in my class whether peaceful in this topic meaning calm or beautiful.

 

[probus]

Hello @Marwan Belal and welcome to the forum. Have you consulted a dictionary as to the meaning? We recommend that all learners bookmark onelook.com, which is a compendium of dictionaries.

 

[Tarheel]

Say:

There was confusion in my class about whether "peaceful" means "calm" or "beautiful".

Do some of them think it might mean "beautiful"?

 

[Marwan Belal]

Do some of them think it might mean "beautiful"?

Yes

 

[Marwan Belal]

Hello @Marwan Belal and welcome to the forum. Have you consulted a dictionary as to the meaning? We recommend that all learners bookmark onelook.com, which is a compendium of dictionaries.

Yes but my teacher said that maybe mean beautiful in this topic.

 

[Rover_KE]

Yes, but my teacher said that maybe it means "beautiful" in this topic.

Note how Tarheel used quotation marks in his reply. You should have done the same, like you did in your thread title.

What topic are you referring to? You haven't given us any context.

I haven't looked at all the definitions of "peaceful" in onelook.com, but I'll be surprised if any of them list "beautiful" as an option.

 

[Tarheel]

I would just tell them they are mistaken. There are similarities between the two words, but they have nothing to do with meaning. Something can be both at the same time, but that doesn't mean they mean the same thing. Similarly you can be cold and wet at the same time, but it doesn't mean "cold" and "wet" mean the same thing. Yes, they have the same suffix, but so do "awful" and "careful".

 

[Marwan Belal]

Say :
Note how Tarheel used quotation marks in his reply. You should have done the same, like you did in your thread title.

What topic are you referring to? You haven't given us any context.

I haven't looked at all the definitions of "peaceful" in onelook.com, but I'll be surprised if any of them list "beautiful" as an option.

Thank you for this note.