pacifist
/ˈpasɪfɪst
/noun
A person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable: she was a committed pacifist all her life...
- In 1917, a mass movement led by socialists and pacifists called for a popular referendum on the question of going to war.
- The head of a major labor confederation made the same request, adding that they should all march not as pacifists but as peaceable people.
- In ‘Work to Do’ he speaks out for the pacifists of the anti-war movement.
Synonyms
peace-lover, conscientious objector, passive resister, peacemaker, peace-monger, appeaser, pacifier
informal dove, peacenik
British informal conchie
rare satyagrahi
adjective
Holding the belief that war and violence are unjustifiable.Not everyone walks around looking for approval from pacifist New Zealanders....
- In the long view, I am a pacifist feminist.
- Critics say sending the troops violates Japan's pacifist constitution.
- have blood on one's hands
- have clean hands
- have designs on
- have every confidence in
- have everything
- have eyes bigger than one's stomach (or belly)
- have eyes in the back of one's head
- have eyes like a hawk
- have eyes like saucers
- have got
- have-got
- have (got) a good head on one's shoulders
- have (got) another think coming
- have got it bad (or badly)
- have (got) it in for
- have (got) it in one (to do something)
- have (got) it made
- have (got) no idea
- have (got) nothing on
- have (got) someone's back
- have (got) something on
- have (got) something on the brain
- have (got) something to oneself
- have (got) —— to do with
- have had a drop too much