different between craven vs pacifist

English

Etymology

From Middle English craven (adjective).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?e?.v?n/
• Rhymes: -e?v?n

Adjective

craven (comparative more craven, superlative most craven)

1. Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cowardly

Derived terms

• cry craven

Translations

Noun

craven (plural cravens)

1. A coward.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:coward

Translations

Verb

craven (third-person singular simple present cravens, present participle cravening, simple past and past participle cravened)

1. To make craven.
   • 1609: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Cymbeline, Act III, Scene IV

     There is a prohibition so divine / That cravens my weak hand.

References

• craven in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• craven in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• carven, cavern

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English craving.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kr?e?v?n/, /kr?e?b?n/
• Hyphenation: cra?ven

Adjective

craven

1. gluttonous, greedy

   Synonyms: gravalicious, licky-licky, nyamy-nyamy

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter, from Latin crepare (“to crack", "creak”)

Adjective

craven

1. Defeated.

Etymology 2

From Old English crafian, from Proto-Germanic *krafjan? (“to demand”).

Verb

craven

1. desire; crave

Derived terms

• icravet (past participle)

English

Etymology

From French pacifiste

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæs?f?st/

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 (comparative more pacifist, superlative most 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), 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.

Synonyms

• (one who loves, supports, or favours peace): dove, Gandhist

Antonyms

• (one who loves, supports, or favours peace): bellicist, militarist, hawk

Related terms

• pacify
• pacific

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French pacifiste or English pacifist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?.si?f?st/
• Hyphenation: pa?ci?fist
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

pacifist m (plural pacifisten, feminine pacifiste)

1. A pacifist.

Related terms

• pacifisme
• pacifistisch

Romanian

Etymology

From French pacifiste

Noun

pacifist m (plural pacifi?ti)

1. pacifist

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pacìfist m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. pacifist

Declension

Swedish

Noun

pacifist c

1. pacifist

Declension

Related terms

• pacifism