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anti-war

anti-war

55 3.4
A person or group that opposes war and supports peace
  • noun
  • /ˈæn.ti.wɔr/
translation icon : antibelicista
  • Because he'll have to make good on that campaign promise for at least a few months and that might give us time to strengthen the anti-war coalition.
  • an anti-war movement

Like environmental justice, anti war, right.

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Examples

  • But when he encountered the counterculture and anti-war movements in the United States, he decided to stay.

    Academic text (2000)
  • A series of sepia images of anti-war protests from the mid-sixties appear one after another on the screen.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Throughout the war, an anti-war movement had grown in America.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • However, I rather strongly disagree with the anti war sentiment.

  • In his youth, the then Prime Minister had been an anti-war protestor.

    Blog text (13)
  • I remember several conversations with other anti-war activists during the Bush administration.

    Blog text (12)
  • Never before in our history has an avowed anti-war candidate been elected president during a time of war.

    Blog text (13)
  • President Nixon was in office, and there was a great deal of anti-war sentiment on campus, Rasmussen notes.

    Blog text (14)
  • While I'm still a peace-loving, anti-war kind of girl, I understand more fully what makes veterans tick.

    Blog text (3)
  • The anti-war movement organized large rallies to voice their opposition to military conflict.

Synonyms

anti-war movement
vsanti-war
12 3.5

A group of people who try to stop a war by holding peaceful protests

includes single people and informal groups not only organized campaigns
peacenik
vsanti-war
  • Archaic
5 8.4

A person who is against war and supports peace by calling for talks

focuses on opposing war without implying support for negotiated peace

How Opposed

pacifist
28 5.5
anti-war
55 3.4
neutral
2 4.2

Surface Forms

anti-war singular
anti-wars plural

Morphology

anti-war = anti-war (transparent) = anti + war

This noun is a converted nominal use of the adjective 'anti-war' and remains fully interpretable from the adjective.

Etymology

The word anti-war joins the part anti- ('against') and the word war ('war'), so an anti-war as a noun is a person or group 'against war'. That's why an anti-war often takes part in protests or movements that want peace.