Difference between Peaceful and Pacifistic

PEACEFUL vs PACIFISTIC: ADJECTIVE

Motionless and calm
Inclined to peace
Not at war or disturbed by strife or turmoil
Not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation; pacific; mild; calm; peaceable.
Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil
Not involving violence or employing force.
Inclined or disposed to peace; peaceable.
Undisturbed by strife, turmoil, or disagreement; tranquil: : calm.
Peacefully resistant in response to injustice
(of groups) not violent or disorderly
Not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war

Synonyms Peaceable, etc. (see pacific), tranquil, serene.
Pacific; mild; calm: as, a peaceful temper.
Full of, possessing, or enjoying peace; not in a state of war, commotion, or disquiet; quiet; undisturbed: as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country.

Peace loving, At peace, Halcyon, Passive, Pacific, Pacifistic, Irenic, Pacifist, Undisturbed, Orderly, Calm, Serene, Tranquil, Nonviolent, Peaceable

Reactionary, Unreligious, Irenic, Universalist, Neutralist, Undogmatic, Religionist, Absolutist, Universalistic, Dogmatic, Liberalist, Militaristic, Isolationist, Peaceful, Pacifist

Law abiding, At peace, Halcyon, Passive, Pacific, Pacifistic, Irenic, Pacifist, Undisturbed, Orderly, Calm, Serene, Tranquil, Nonviolent, Peaceable

Reactionary, Unreligious, Irenic, Universalist, Neutralist, Undogmatic, Religionist, Absolutist, Universalistic, Dogmatic, Liberalist, Militaristic, Isolationist, Peaceful, Pacifist

Enjoy more peaceful moments from naptime to nighttime.
The chances of a peaceful settlement seem bleak.
His daughter told me he looked so peaceful.
Peaceful Pines Assisted Living Center in Rapid City.
Drivers are plowing into crowds of peaceful protesters.
Check out the convenient, peaceful and gated location.
It is in a peaceful lodge in a secluded and peaceful environment.
At the end of the course you will be trained as both a Peaceful Kids and a Peaceful Parents facilitator.
Nothing keeps a peaceful protest peaceful like a line of rifles with fixed bayonets.
In fact, disproportionate police force is one of the things that can make a peaceful protest not so peaceful.

The Army, as is its entirely realistic, pacifistic way, is trying to broker peace with the Apaches before shuffling them off to Florida reservations.
Since his material interests lie in peaceful trade, he and the democratic state that he and his fellow citizens control are pacifistic.
By the time World War II came there was very little pacifistic sentiment left in the church, even though the official stance never changed.
Dawkins and Hitchens, and then we hear the arguments from the secular right which attack Christianity for being too pacifistic.
This aspect of the movement displayed signs of extreme militancy and was not pacifistic in rhetoric or in character.
Between this and their physical weakness, volus are perceived as pacifistic and somewhat cowardly by other species.
Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.
Lastly, Revelation uses the imagery of war, which under a pacifistic approach would not be appropriate for Christians.
The Minority Socialists were, of course, far more pacifistic and revolutionary.
Canada was a largely pacifistic country, something Zara despised.