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PACIFIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pacifist mean? 

PACIFIST (noun)
  The noun PACIFIST has 1 sense:

1. someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputesplay

  Familiarity information: PACIFIST used as a noun is very rare.


PACIFIST (adjective)
  The adjective PACIFIST has 1 sense:

1. opposed to warplay

  Familiarity information: PACIFIST used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PACIFIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

disarmer; pacificist; pacifist

Hypernyms ("pacifist" is a kind of...):

adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pacifist"):

dove; peacenik (someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations)

Derivation:

pacifism (the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration)

pacifism (the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable)

pacifist (opposed to war)


PACIFIST (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Opposed to war

Synonyms:

dovish; pacifist; pacifistic

Similar:

peaceable; peaceful (not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war)

Derivation:

pacifist (someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes)


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