pacifist
a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
a person whose personal belief in pacifism causes them to refuse being drafted into military service.: Compare conscientious objector.
Origin of pacifist
1Other words from pacifist
- an·ti·pac·i·fist, noun, adjective
- non·pac·i·fist, noun
- pro·pac·i·fist, noun, adjective
- sem·i·pac·i·fist, adjective, noun
- un·pac·i·fist, adjective
Words that may be confused with pacifist
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How to use pacifist in a sentence
Whatever the pacifists etc. may say, we have not gone totalitarian yet and this is a very hopeful symptom.
Resistance to “The Star-Spangled Banner” also flared among blacks, pacifists, and advocates of temperance.
Star-Spangled Confederates: How Southern Sympathizers Decided Our National Anthem | Jefferson Morley | July 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWe like movies about pacifists, but not movies about pacifists who opposed wars we support.
Why is it, by the way, that pacifists never object to having an armed police force?
People who used the war as an opportunity to have fun were beginning to be treated almost as coldly as the pacifists.
The Marne | Edith Wharton
Rapp, Senior, said that was all very well, but these pacifists would keep us out of war yet.
The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon WilsonContrary to the generally accepted opinion of the pacifists, France did not deliberately bring this war on herself.
Out of the Air | Inez Haynes IrwinWoe to the nation which allows itself to be deceived by the sentiment and cowardice of pacifists.
German Problems and Personalities | Charles SaroleaYou are pacifists, and you suspect that the Germans, who were not pacifists, were right after all.
Soliloquies in England | George Santayana
British Dictionary definitions for pacifist
/ (ˈpæsɪfɪst) /
a person who supports pacifism
a person who refuses military service
advocating, relating to, or characterized by pacifism
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