Nonviolent

Synonyms for "nonviolent" (58 found)

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Closest matches (12)

Adjective(5 words)
antiwarbloodless changebloodless revolutionbloodless revolutionsdiplomatic tactic
Noun(2 words)
civil rights movementgandhian

Strong matches (17)

Adjective(6 words)
gentlehumane stancenegotiated methodnonaggressivenonmilitant approachnonviolence ethic
Noun(1 words)
most bloodless

Related words (29)

Adjective(9 words)
pacifismpacifistpeace ethicpeaceable soulpeacefulpeaceful electionspeaceful societypeaceful strategyunbloody
Noun(4 words)
paxtopeaceful reformpeaceful settlementreforming peacefully

Related word relations

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More general

6 entries
adjectiveapproachdescriptive termethicmoral principlepolicy term

More specific

7 entries
antiwar stancecivil disobediencenegotiated settlementnonviolence ethicpacifist philosophypassive resistancepeaceful protest

Collocations

5 entries
nonviolent classroom managementnonviolent communicationnonviolent conflict resolutionnonviolent protestnonviolent resistance

Inflections

2 entries
more nonviolentmost nonviolent

Derivations

2 entries

Antonyms

1 entries

similar

6 entries

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

You can solve the problem in nonviolent ways.

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The nonviolent actions of Martin Luther King inspired many people.

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So the road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.

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Nonviolence only works when there are violent activists there to make the nonviolent ones seem like a reasonable compromise.

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