pacifist
English
editAlternative forms
edit- (dated) pacificist
Etymology
editFrom French pacifiste, equivalent to pacific + -ist.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈpæsɪfɪst/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editpacifist (plural pacifists)
- One who loves, supports, or favours peace.
- Mahatma Gandhi was one of the world's most famous pacifists.
- One who prefers to avoid violence in daily life.
- One who is anti-war.
- 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
- No matter what pacifist "flubdubs and flapdoodle mollycoddles" might say, the President [Teddy Roosevelt] knew that if there were a general war then America could well be drawn into it.
- One who both abstains from inflicting violence on others and opposes others doing so.
- (video games, roguelikes) A player who attempts the challenge of winning a game without attacking any enemy characters.
Translations
editone who loves, supports, or favours peace
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one who avoids violence
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one who opposes violence and is anti-war
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Adjective
editpacifist (comparative more pacifist, superlative most pacifist)
- Of or relating to pacifism; pacifistic.
- 2010, Charles R. Pinches, Kelly S. Johnson, Charles M. Collier, Unsettling Arguments: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Stanley Hauerwas's 70th Birthday, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 129:
- Therefore, because Hauerwas is a United Methodist, a church that is clearly not pacifist even if it is not clear what it is, he is not (yet) a pacifist.
Synonyms
editAntonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “one who loves, supports, or favours peace”): bellicist, militarist, hawk
Derived terms
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editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French pacifiste or English pacifist.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpacifist m (plural pacifisten, feminine pacifiste)
- a pacifist
Related terms
editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French pacifiste.
Noun
editpacifist m (plural pacifiști)
Declension
editDeclension of pacifist
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) pacifist | pacifistul | (niște) pacifiști | pacifiștii |
genitive/dative | (unui) pacifist | pacifistului | (unor) pacifiști | pacifiștilor |
vocative | pacifistule | pacifiștilor |
Serbo-Croatian
editNoun
editpacìfist m (Cyrillic spelling пацѝфист)
Declension
editDeclension of pacifist
singular | plural | |
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nominative | pacifist | pacifisti |
genitive | pacifista | pacifista |
dative | pacifistu | pacifistima |
accusative | pacifista | pacifiste |
vocative | pacifiste | pacifisti |
locative | pacifistu | pacifistima |
instrumental | pacifistmo | pacifistima |
Swedish
editNoun
editpacifist c
- a pacifist
Declension
editDeclension of pacifist
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