peacenik
Anti-war activist type
Peacenik is an informal, often dismissive term for someone who actively opposes war and military intervention.
The -nik suffix, borrowed from Russian via beatnik and sputnik, adds a slightly mocking tone, suggesting the person's pacifism is naive or excessive.
The word emerged during the Vietnam War era to describe antiwar protesters and remains in use today.
The senator dismissed the peaceniks protesting outside her office.
Principled rejection of force
- doveGentle cooing bird
- antiwarOpposed to armed conflict
- conscientious objectorOne refusing military service morally
- ahimsaHindu principle of harmlessness
disarmament · Quaker · Gandhi · MLK · nuclear freeze · draft dodger · demilitarization · armistice
Sixties counterculture member
- flower childGentle counterculture idealist
- beatnikFifties counterculture member
- bohemianArtistic nonconformist type
- communeShared-living community
Woodstock · flower power · tie-dye · Summer of Love · Haight-Ashbury · free love · nonconformist · dropout
Public display of opinion
- marchRhythmic group walk
- rallyGathering for a cause
- sit-inProtest by remaining seated
- vigilPurposeful nighttime wakefulness
picket · placard · banner · chant · civil disobedience · moratorium · die-in · candlelight vigil
One given to fantasies
- utopianImpractically perfect in conception
- naiveInnocently unsuspecting
- starry-eyedNaively romantic or idealistic
- bleeding heartOverly sentimental liberal
do-gooder · idealistic · hopeful · optimist · softhearted · gentle · pie in the sky · wishful thinker
nonviolence
Principled rejection of force
- doveGentle cooing bird
- antiwarOpposed to armed conflict
- conscientious objectorOne refusing military service morally
ahimsa · disarmament · Quaker · Gandhi · MLK · nuclear freeze · draft dodger · demilitarization · armistice · satyagraha
hippie
Sixties counterculture member
- flower childGentle counterculture idealist
- beatnikFifties counterculture member
- bohemianArtistic nonconformist type
commune · Woodstock · flower power · tie-dye · Summer of Love · Haight-Ashbury · free love · nonconformist · dropout · folk singer
demonstration
Public display of opinion
vigil · picket · placard · banner · chant · civil disobedience · moratorium · die-in · candlelight vigil · human chain
dreamer
One given to fantasies
- utopianImpractically perfect in conception
- naiveInnocently unsuspecting
- starry-eyedNaively romantic or idealistic
bleeding heart · do-gooder · idealistic · hopeful · optimist · softhearted · gentle · pie in the sky · wishful thinker · Pollyanna
- peacedove, dove release, olive branch, white flag, treaty
- peacemakerspeacebuilders, diplomats, humanitarians, Gandhi, mediators
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- MASHHawkeye, Klinger, Korea, Korean War, meatball surgery
- political labelsliberal, conservative, leftist, rightist, moderate
peacenikhawk
Taloned predatory bird
warmonger · war hawk · militarist · jingo · jingoist