English
pacifist
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈpæsɪfɪst/
Noun

pacifist (plural pacifists)

  1. One who loves, supports, or favours peace.
    Mahatma Gandhi was one of the world's most famous pacifists.
  2. One who prefers to avoid violence.
  3. One who opposes violence and 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.
  4. (video games, roguelikes) A player who attempts the challenge of winning a game without attacking any enemy characters.
Adjective

pacifist

  1. Of or relating to pacifism.
    • 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 9781606082539), 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.
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