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語源

From French pacifiste, equivalent to pacific +‎ -ist.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpæsɪfɪst/

名詞

pacifist (plural pacifists)

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

   Synonyms: dove, Gandhist

   Antonyms: bellicist, hawk, militarist

   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.

派生語

形容詞

pacifist (comparative more pacifist, superlative most pacifist)

1. Of or relating to pacifism; pacifistic.

   Synonyms: dovish, pacific; see also Thesaurus:peaceable

   • 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.

派生語

• anarcho-pacifist

関連する語

• pacify
• pacific