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NONVIOLENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nonviolent mean?
• NONVIOLENT (adjective)
The adjective NONVIOLENT has 2 senses:
1. abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence
2. achieved without bloodshed
Familiarity information: NONVIOLENT used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence
Similar:
passive; peaceful (peacefully resistant in response to injustice)
Also:
peaceable; peaceful (not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war)
unprovocative; unprovoking (not provocative)
Antonym:
violent (acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity)
Derivation:
nonviolence (peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Achieved without bloodshed
Synonyms:
nonviolent; unbloody
Context example:
an unbloody transfer of power
Similar:
bloodless (free from blood or bloodshed)
Derivation:
nonviolence (peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate)
Context examples
A standard survey tool for assessing the parental resolution of conflict between parents and children, including nonviolent discipline and physical aggression.
(Conflicts Tactics Scale, Parent-Child, NCI Thesaurus)
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