Usually means: Lacking violence; peaceful in nature.
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  1. nonviolent: Merriam-Webster
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  8. nonviolent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Nonviolent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. nonviolent: Rhymezone
  11. nonviolent: FreeDictionary.org
  12. nonviolent: Mnemonic Dictionary
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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of non-violent [(Of a deed, event etc.) Without violence.]

Similar:
unbloody, peaceful, passive, bloodless, nonviolence, peaceable, violent, noncoercive, pacifistic, pacifist, more...

Opposite:
violent, aggressive, combative

Types:
civil disobedience, passive resistance, protest, sit-in, boycott, more...

Phrases:
Nonviolent resistance, nonviolent action, King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Nonviolent Communication, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, more...

Adjectives:
most, violent, inherently, large, only, own, direct, creative

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Similar:
unbloody, peaceful, passive, bloodless, nonviolence, peaceable, violent, noncoercive, pacifistic, pacifist, more...

Opposite:
violent, aggressive, combative

Types:
civil disobedience, passive resistance, protest, sit-in, boycott, more...

Phrases:
Nonviolent resistance, nonviolent action, King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Nonviolent Communication, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Nonviolent revolution, more...

Adjectives:
most, violent, inherently, large, only, own, direct, creative

Colors:
    white,     light blue,     lavender,     pastel pink,     mint green, more...



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