pacifist

English

Etymology

From French pacifiste

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæsɪfɪst/

Noun

pacifist (plural pacifists)

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

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

2. One who prefers to avoid violence.
3. 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.

4. (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)

1. 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.

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

• Arabic: مُسَالِم‎ m (musālim)
• Armenian: պացիֆիստ (hy) (pacʿifist)
• Catalan: pacifista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 和平主義者, 和平主义者 (hépíngzhǔyìzhě)

• Esperanto: pacifisto
• Finnish: pasifisti (fi)
• French: pacifiste (fr) m or f
• Georgian: პაციფისტი (ṗacipisṭi)

• German: Pazifist (de), Pazifistin (de) f
• Greek: ειρηνιστής (el) m (eirinistís)
• Irish: síochánaí m
• Italian: pacifista (it)
• Japanese: 平和主義者 (heiwashugisha), 鳩派 (hatoha)
• Maori: kaiwhakamārie
• Plautdietsch: Wäaloosa m
• Portuguese: pacifista (pt) m
• Russian: пацифи́ст (ru) m (pacifíst), пацифи́стка (ru) f (pacifístka)
• Spanish: pacifista m or f
• Swedish: pacifist (sv) c

one who avoids violence

• Armenian: պացիֆիստ (hy) (pacʿifist)
• Finnish: pasifisti (fi)
• Greek: ειρηνιστής (el) m (eirinistís)
• Irish: síochánaí m

• Italian: pacifista (it)
• Japanese: 穏健派 (onkenha)
• Latin: imbellis
• Portuguese: pacifista (pt) m
• Swedish: pacifist (sv) c

one who opposes violence and is anti-war

• Armenian: պացիֆիստ (hy) (pacʿifist)
• Finnish: pasifisti (fi)
• Georgian: პაციფისტი (ṗacipisṭi)
• German: Kriegsgegner (de) m, Kriegsgegnerin (de) f
• Greek: ειρηνιστής (el) m (eirinistís)

• Irish: síochánaí m
• Italian: pacifista (it)
• Japanese: 平和主義者 (heiwashugisha), 鳩派 (hatoha)
• Plautdietsch: Wäaloosa m
• Portuguese: pacifista (pt) m
• Swedish: pacifist (sv) c

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• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} friðarsinni (is) n

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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)

1. A pacifist.

Related terms

• pacifisme
• pacifistisch

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Romanian

Etymology

From French pacifiste

Noun

pacifist m (plural pacifiști)

1. pacifist

Declension

Declension of pacifist

	singular		plural
	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

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pacìfist m (Cyrillic spelling пацѝфист)

1. pacifist

Declension

Declension of pacifist

	singular	plural
nominative	pacifist	pacifisti
genitive	pacifista	pacifista
dative	pacifistu	pacifistima
accusative	pacifista	pacifiste
vocative	pacifiste	pacifisti
locative	pacifistu	pacifistima
instrumental	pacifistmo	pacifistima

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Swedish

Noun

pacifist c

1. pacifist

Declension

Declension of pacifist
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	pacifist	pacifisten	pacifister	pacifisterna
Genitive	pacifists	pacifistens	pacifisters	pacifisternas

Related terms

• pacifism