advocating, relating to, or characterized by pacifism
pacifistic in American English
(ˌpæsəˈfɪstɪk)
adjective
of or pertaining to pacifism or pacifists
Derived forms
pacifistically
adverb
Word origin
[1925–30; pacif(ic) + -istic]This word is first recorded in the period 1925–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Nazi, chain reaction, hot spot, payload, recycle-istic is a suffix of adjectives (and in the plural, of nouns from adjectives) formed fromnouns ending in -ist and having reference to such nouns, or to associated nouns in -ism (deistic; euphuistic; puristic). In nouns, it usually has a plural form (linguistics)
Examples of 'pacifistic' in a sentence
pacifistic
Why aren't young people more idealistic and pacifistic than others?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He was positioned by his commercial handlers as saintly, unifying, pacifistic and unthreatening.