hawkish

From hawk +‎ -ish.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːkɪʃ/

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• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːkɪʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːkɪʃ

hawkish (comparative more hawkish, superlative most hawkish)

1. Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
2. Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.

   Synonym: bellicose

   Antonym: dovish

   The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion.

   • 2019 September 10, Christian Britschgi, “Ultra-Hawk John Bolton Fired From Trump Administration”, in Reason:

     This was not the first disagreement between the ultra-hawkish Bolton and the occasionally more intervention-skeptic Trump.

   • 2020 July 1, Dan Friedman, “Congressional Democrats Are Tying Themselves Into Knots About Whether to Restrict Aid to Israel”, in Mother Jones:

     But before the letter was finalized, it drew denunciation from the hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

   • 2022 August 21, Anton Troianovski, “Brazen Attack Near Moscow Rattles Russians”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The Russian authorities said on Sunday that they had begun a murder investigation into the killing of Daria Dugina, 29, a hawkish political commentator who was the daughter of the philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, long a leading proponent of an imperialist Russia who has been urging the Kremlin to escalate its assault on Ukraine.

3. Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.

   Antonym: dovish

   The Federal Reserve's recent statement on the slowing of inflation was interpreted as hawkish by the market.

• hawkishly
• hawkishness

• war hawk

• war hawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Wishkah

Borrowed from English hawkish.

hawkish (strong nominative masculine singular hawkisher, comparative hawkisher, superlative am hawkishsten)

1. (stock market, uncommon) hawkish
   • 2022 July 13, Kornelius Purps, “EUR-USD: Parität hält, aber wie lange noch?”, in Wallstreet Online‎:

     Die Zentralbankvertreter sind von ihrer hawkishen Rhetorik bislang so gut wie keinen Millimeter abgewichen […]

     Central bank representatives have distanced themselves from their hawkish rhetorics by no millimeter

• “hawkish” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon