pacifist

English

Alternative forms

• (dated) pacificist

Etymology

From French pacifiste, equivalent to pacific +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæsɪfɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

pacifist (plural pacifists)

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

   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.

Translations

one who loves, supports, or favours peace

• Albanian: pacifist (sq) m, pacifiste f
• Arabic: مُسَالِم m (musālim), مُسَالِمَة f (musālima)
• Armenian: պացիֆիստ (hy) (pacʻifist)
• Azerbaijani: pasifist
• Belarusian: пацыфі́ст m (pacyfíst), пацыфі́стка f (pacyfístka)
• Bulgarian: пацифи́ст m (pacifíst), пацифи́стка f (pacifístka)
• Catalan: pacifista m or f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: pacifista (cs) m, pacifistka (cs) f
• Danish: pacifist (da) c
• Dutch: pacifist (nl) m, pacifiste (nl) f, vredestrijder m
• Esperanto: pacifisto
• Estonian: patsifist
• Finnish: pasifisti (fi)
• French: pacifiste (fr) m or f
• Georgian: პაციფისტი (ṗacipisṭi)
• German: Pazifist (de), Pazifistin (de) f
• Greek: ειρηνιστής (el) m (eirinistís), ειρηνίστρια (el) f (eirinístria), πασιφιστής (el) m (pasifistís), πασιφίστρια f (pasifístria)
• Hebrew: פַּצִיפִיסט (he) m (patsifíst)
• Hindi: शांतिवादी (hi) m (śāntivādī), शान्तिवादी (hi) m (śāntivādī)
• Hungarian: pacifista (hu)
• Icelandic: friðarsinni (is) m
• Irish: síochánaí m
• Italian: pacifista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 平和主義者 (へいわしゅぎしゃ, heiwashugisha), 鳩派 (はとは, hatoha)
• Kazakh: пацифист (pasifist)
• Korean: 평화주의자(平和主義者) (pyeonghwajuuija)
• Kyrgyz: пацифист (patsifist)
• Latvian: pacifists m, pacifiste f
• Lithuanian: pacifistas m, pacifistė f
• Macedonian: пацифи́ст m (pacifíst), пацифи́стка f (pacifístka)
• Maori: kaiwhakamārie
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pasifist m

• Persian: صلح‌جو (solh-ju), صلح‌طلب (solh-talab)
• Plautdietsch: Wäaloosa m
• Polish: pacyfista (pl) m, pacyfistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pacifista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: pacifist (ro) m, pacifistă (ro) f
• Russian: пацифи́ст (ru) m (pacifíst), пацифи́стка (ru) f (pacifístka), миролю́б (ru) m (miroljúb)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пацѝфист m, пацѝфисткиња f

  Roman: pacìfist (sh) m, pacìfistkinja (sh) f

• Slovak: pacifista m, pacifistka f
• Slovene: pacifist m, pacifistka f
• Spanish: pacifista (es)
• Swedish: pacifist (sv) c
• Tajik: патсифист (patsifist), сулҳҷу (sulhju), сулҳҷуй (sulhjuy), сулхпарвар (sulxparvar), сулҳталаб (sulhtalab)
• Turkish: pasifist
• Ukrainian: пацифі́ст m (pacyfíst), пацифі́стка f (pacyfístka), миролю́бець m (myroljúbecʹ)
• Uzbek: patsifist (uz)
• Welsh: heddychwr m

one who avoids violence

• Armenian: պացիֆիստ (hy) (pacʻifist)
• Finnish: pasifisti (fi)
• Greek: ειρηνιστής (el) m (eirinistís)
• Irish: síochánaí m
• Italian: pacifista (it)
• Japanese: 穏健派 (ja) (おんけんは, onkenha)
• Latin: imbellis
• Portuguese: pacifista (pt) m
• Russian: пацифи́ст (ru) m (pacifíst), пацифи́стка (ru) f (pacifístka), миролю́б (ru) m (miroljúb)
• Swedish: pacifist (sv) c
• Ukrainian: пацифі́ст m (pacyfíst), пацифі́стка f (pacyfístka), миролю́бець m (myroljúbecʹ)

one who opposes violence and is anti-war

• Armenian: պացիֆիստ (hy) (pacʻifist)
• Dutch: vredestrijder m
• 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 (へいわしゅぎしゃ, heiwashugisha), 鳩派 (はとは, hatoha)
• Plautdietsch: Wäaloosa m
• Portuguese: pacifista (pt) m
• Russian: пацифи́ст (ru) m (pacifíst), пацифи́стка (ru) f (pacifístka), миролю́б (ru) m (miroljúb)
• Swedish: pacifist (sv) c
• Welsh: heddychwr m

Adjective

pacifist (comparative more pacifist, superlative most pacifist)

1. Of or relating to pacifism; pacifistic.
   • 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

• (antonym(s) of “one who loves, supports, or favours peace”): bellicist, militarist, hawk

Derived terms

• anarcho-pacifist

Related terms

• pacify
• pacific

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French pacifiste or English pacifist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.siˈfɪst/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

Noun

pacifist m (plural pacifisten, feminine pacifiste)

1. a pacifist

Related terms

• pacifisme
• pacifistisch

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pacifiste.

Noun

pacifist m (plural pacifiști)

1. pacifist

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pacifist	pacifistul		pacifiști	pacifiștii
genitive-dative	pacifist	pacifistului		pacifiști	pacifiștilor
vocative	pacifistule			pacifiștilor

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

Swedish

Noun

pacifist c

1. a pacifist

Declension

Declension of pacifist

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	pacifist	pacifists
	definite	pacifisten	pacifistens
plural	indefinite	pacifister	pacifisters
	definite	pacifisterna	pacifisternas

Related terms

• pacifism
• pacifistisk

References

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