antimilitary

Examples

• All

• Students sometimes complain of antimilitary remarks made by a professor or assistant during a lecture.

  Academic text (1990)

• Singletary was to have used them to thwart American military plans, perhaps, since the cause of peace, or the poor, or the environment always seems to go with an antimilitary stance.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The outbreak of the Cold War dramatically changed the security milieu, moderating the antimilitary sentiments that were believed to be inherent in most Western societies.

  Academic text (2000)

• In the 1980s and early 1990s, however, the bourgeois class overwhelmingly supported civilian democratic rule, climaxing in its participation in the antimilitary demonstrations in May 1992.

  Academic text (1995)

• Antimilitary sentiments and cynicism toward all national security concerns were strong, and patriotism and national loyalty were no longer accepted by most young Germans, particularly in the heady years of the student rebellions during the late 1960s and 1970s.

  Academic text (1990)

• The protest was driven by an antimilitary sentiment against increased military spending in the budget.

• Activists organized an antimilitary rally to raise awareness about the consequences of war.

Synonyms

A

antimilitarist

vsantimilitary

7.5

Against the military having power in government or society

focuses on opposing armed forces and their policies or activities

A

antimilitaristic

vsantimilitary

7.2

Against strong military influence in government and society

targets armed forces and their policies or activities

How Antimilitary

pacifist

8 5.3

antimilitary

1 6.1

neutral

218 3.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology