NON-VIOLENT


Meaning of NON-VIOLENT in English

also nonviolent

1.

Non-violent methods of bringing about change do not involve hurting people or causing damage.

King was a worldwide symbol of non-violent protest against racial injustice...

I would only belong to an environmental movement if it was explicitly non-violent.

≠ violent

ADJ

• non-violence

His commitment to non-violence led to a Nobel peace prize in 1989.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

You can refer to someone or something such as a crime as non-violent when that person or thing does not hurt or injure people.

...non-violent offenders...

≠ violent

ADJ

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