pacifist
English
Etymology
From French pacifiste.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpæsɪfɪst/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
pacifist (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.
- One who opposes violence and 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.
- 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- (video games, roguelikes) A player who attempts the challenge of winning a game without attacking any enemy characters.
Adjective
pacifist (comparative more pacifist, superlative most pacifist)
- Of or relating to pacifism.
- 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.
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Synonyms
- (one who loves, supports, or favours peace): dove, Gandhist
Antonyms
- (one who loves, supports, or favours peace): bellicist, militarist, hawk
Related terms
- pacify
- pacific
Translations
one 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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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French pacifiste or English pacifist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌpaː.siˈfɪst/
- Hyphenation: pa‧ci‧fist
- Rhymes: -ɪst
Noun
pacifist m (plural pacifisten, feminine pacifiste)
- A pacifist.
Related terms
- pacifisme
- pacifistisch
Romanian
Etymology
From French pacifiste.
Noun
pacifist m (plural pacifiști)
- pacifist
Declension
Declension 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
Noun
pacìfist m (Cyrillic spelling пацѝфист)
- pacifist
Declension
Declension 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
Noun
pacifist c
- pacifist
Declension
Declension of pacifist | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pacifist | pacifisten | pacifister | pacifisterna |
Genitive | pacifists | pacifistens | pacifisters | pacifisternas |
Derived terms
- pacifistisk
Related terms
- pacifism