pacifist

Other forms of pacifist

plural

pacifists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pacifist

What does pacifist mean?

pacifist means "someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pacifist?

pacifist has 3 syllables: pac-i-fist. The stress falls on "pac". In IPA it is /ˈpæsɪfɪst/.

What is another word for pacifist?

Close synonyms include pacificist, disarmer, pacifistic, dovish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pacifist a common word?

pacifist is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.