antiwarrior

antiwarrior noun: one who has antiwar beliefs.

Noun

antiwarrior (plural antiwarriors)

One who has antiwar beliefs.
- There is only one candidate McCarthy can hurt—the Democrat—and the fairness doctrine/equal-time tradition guarantees that the old antiwarrior will get his message through to distant-drummer marchers.1976 August 9, Richard Reeves, “With Georgia a One-Party State, Can the Nation be Far Behind?”, in New York Magazine, volume 9, number 32, page 79
- Saladin's prophetic namesake, by any account as obviously an antiwarrior as one can imagine, seems at first too antithetical a character for comparison with the anti-Crusader par excellence, and therein lies the hagiographical dynamic at work.2020, John Renard, Crossing Confessional Boundaries
One who is the antithesis of a warrior.
- They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the sun and they rode out of that vanished sea like burn phantoms with the legs of the animals kicking up the spume that was not real and they were lost in the sun and lost in the lake and they shimmered...1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 109
- Quixote becomes our favorite antihero, antiprophet, antiwarrior, anti-hunter-gatherer—and this is good medicine to keep men healthy.2009, Matthew Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men, page 215

antiwarrior (comparative more antiwarrior, superlative most antiwarrior)

Opposed to warriors, soldiers and/or others who make a living from combat.
- Mr. Aspin's successor at the House Armed Services Committee says he's antiwar, not antiwarrior.1993, Pat Towell, “The Dellums Agenda”, in Air Force Magazine, volume 76, page 46
- That's the money line from director Sam Mendes's 2005 antiwar, antiwarrior quagmire of a film Jarhead.2007, Robert "Buzz" Patterson, War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror

And then. . . there was this gradual evolution to passionate antiwarrior.2016, T. Wells, Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg, page 207:
It was ironic, considering how antiwarrior both his father and brother were.2020, Juliana Stone, His Darkest Hunger:

From anti- + warrior.

What does antiwarrior mean?: Antiwarrior means one who has antiwar beliefs.
How do you use antiwarrior in a sentence?: And then. . . there was this gradual evolution to passionate antiwarrior.
What part of speech is antiwarrior?: Antiwarrior can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of antiwarrior?: The plural of antiwarrior is antiwarriors.

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