different between pacifist vs militant

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

From Middle French militant, from Latin m?lit?ns, present participle of m?lit?re (“to serve as a soldier”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?l?t?nt/

Adjective

militant (comparative more militant, superlative most militant)

1. Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike. [from 15th c.]
   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 394:

     The upper tiers of the foreign ministry were quick to embrace a militant policy.

2. Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative. [from 17th c.]

Synonyms

• warrish

Translations

Noun

militant (plural militants)

1. (obsolete) A soldier, a combatant. [17th-19th c.]
2. An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction. [from 19th c.]
   • 2008, Militants in Pakistan release 250 schoolchildren after taking them hostage, Wikinews:

     Officials in Pakistan have confirmed that at least 250 schoolchildren between 12 and 18 years old and several teachers were taken hostage by at least seven militants inside a high school in Domail.

3. Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant, or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics. [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

• Militant Tendency
• ultramilitant

Related terms

• militance
• military
• militia

Translations

Catalan

Adjective

militant (masculine and feminine plural militants)

1. A militant.

Verb

militant

1. present participle of militar

Further reading

• “militant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “militant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “militant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “militant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi.li?t?nt/
• Hyphenation: mi?li?tant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology

Borrowed from French militant.

Adjective

militant (comparative militanter, superlative militantst)

1. militant (belligerent, tending to violence, defensive)

Inflection

Related terms

• militair
• militie

Noun

militant m (plural militanten)

1. A militant, combatant.
2. A devoted supporter, activist.

Derived terms

• partijmilitant
• vakbondsmilitant

French

Etymology

From militer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.li.t??/

Adjective

militant (feminine singular militante, masculine plural militants, feminine plural militantes)

1. militant

Noun

militant m (plural militants)

1. An activist, campaigner

   Synonyms: partisan, supporter, supporteur

Verb

militant

1. present participle of militer

Further reading

• “militant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• limitant

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?lit?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mili?tant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

militant (comparative militanter, superlative am militantesten)

1. militant

Declension

Latin

Verb

m?litant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of m?lit?

Occitan

Adjective

militant m (feminine singular militanta, masculine plural militants, feminine plural militantas)

1. militant

Romanian

Etymology

From French militant.

Adjective

militant m or n (feminine singular militant?, masculine plural militan?i, feminine and neuter plural militante)

1. activist

Declension