Meaning

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

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

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

    One who prefers to avoid violence in daily life.

    пацифи́стpacifíst, пацифи́сткаpacifístka, миролю́бmiroljúb

    пацифі́стpacyfíst, пацифі́сткаpacyfístka, миролю́бецьmyroljúbecʹ

  3. One who is anti-war.

    Kriegsgegner, Kriegsgegnerin

    пацифи́стpacifíst, пацифи́сткаpacifístka, миролю́бmiroljúb

  4. One who both abstains from inflicting violence on others and opposes others doing so.

  5. A player who attempts the challenge of winning a game without attacking any enemy characters.

More definitions
  • someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes

Examples

25 sentences
  1. I'm a pacifist.

    Я пацифіст. — deniko

    ruЯ пацифист. — Olya

    deIch bin Pazifist. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. They were pacifists.

    Вони були пацифістами. — deniko

    ruОни были пацифистами. — marafon

  3. Tom is a pacifist.

    ruТом — пацифист. — odexed

  4. I'm not a pacifist.

    ruЯ не пацифист. — marafon

    deIch bin kein Pazifist. — wolfgangth

  5. Is Tom a pacifist?

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
one who loves, supports, or favours peace:
Русский
By meaning 1
one who loves, supports, or favours peace:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
one who loves, supports, or favours peace:
one who opposes violence and is anti-war:

Origin

From French pacifiste, equivalent to pacific + -ist.

From French pacifiste, equivalent to pacific + -ist.

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Forms

plural: pacifists

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

3 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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