pacifist

• (dated) pacificist

From French pacifiste, equivalent to pacific +‎ -ist.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæsɪfɪst/

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pacifist (plural pacifists)

1. One who loves, supports, or favours peace.

   Synonyms: dove, Gandhist

   Antonyms: bellicist, hawk, militarist

   Mahatma Gandhi was one of the world's most famous pacifists.

   1. One who prefers to avoid violence in daily life.
   2. 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.

   3. One who both abstains from inflicting violence on others and opposes others doing so.
2. (video games, roguelikes) A player who attempts the challenge of winning a game without attacking any enemy characters.

pacifist (comparative more pacifist, superlative most pacifist)

1. Of or relating to pacifism; pacifistic.

   Synonyms: dovish, pacific; see also Thesaurus:peaceable

   • 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.

• anarcho-pacifist

• pacify
• pacific

Borrowed from French pacifiste or English pacifist.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.siˈfɪst/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ci‧fist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

pacifist m (plural pacifisten, feminine pacifiste)

1. a pacifist

• pacifisme
• pacifistisch

Borrowed from French pacifiste.

pacifist m (plural pacifiști, feminine equivalent pacifistă)

1. pacifist

• “pacifist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• pacìfista (Bosnia, Serbia)

• IPA^(key): /pat͡sǐfist/
• Hyphenation: pa‧ci‧fist

pacìfist m anim (Cyrillic spelling пацѝфист)

1. (Croatia) pacifist

pacifist c

1. a pacifist

• pacifism
• pacifistisk

• pacifist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pacifist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)