pacificist

Other forms: pacificists

Definitions of pacificist
  1. noun
    someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
    synonyms: disarmer, pacifist
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    types:
    dove, peacenik
    someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations
    type of:
    adult, grownup
    a fully developed person from maturity onward
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