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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

English

Etymology

1921, from Italian fascista, from fascio (“bundle, bunch”), in use metonymically for "group of men organized for political purposes" since 1895. Ultimately with reference to the fasces or bundles of axes and rods carried before the magistrates of ancient Rome in token of their power of life and death).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?fæ??st/

Adjective

fascist (comparative more fascist, superlative most fascist)

1. Of or relating to fascism.
2. Supporting the principles of fascism.
3. (informal) Unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict.

   I have a fascist boss.

Translations

Noun

fascist (plural fascists)

1. A member of a political party or other organization that advocates fascist principles.
2. A proponent of fascism.

Usage notes

It is very common to use “fascist” in an almost indiscriminate manner for political opponents, cf. George Orwell, “What is Fascism?” (1944): “It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.”

Translations

Derived terms

• clerofascist
• Islamofascist

Related terms

• fascism
• fascistic

See also

• Nazi, nazi

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “fascist”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Dutch

Etymology

Early 1920s. Borrowed from Italian fascista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??s?st/, /f????st/
• Hyphenation: fas?cist
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

fascist m (plural fascisten, diminutive fascistje n, feminine fasciste)

1. fascist [from 1920s]

Derived terms

• fascistisch

Related terms

• fascisme

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: fasis

Swedish

Alternative forms

• faskist (rare)

Noun

fascist c

1. fascist

Declension

Related terms

• fascism
• fascistisk

References

• fascist in Svensk ordbok (SO)