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hawkish en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈhoːkɪʃ/ (British, Southern, Standard)
• /ˈhɑkɪʃ/ (cot-caught-merger)
• /ˈhɔkɪʃ/ without the cot–caught merger
• /ˈhoːkəʃ/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
• /ˈhɒkɪʃ/ (Canada)
• /ˈhɔːkɪʃ/ (Northern-England, Received-Pronunciation, Wales)
• /ˈhɔkɪʃ/ (Scotland)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-der.? Proto-Germanic *habukaz Proto-West Germanic *habuk Old English hafoc Middle English hauk English hawk Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English hawkish From hawk + -ish.

Meanings

1. Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
   • Luisa locks her VW and crosses the scrub to the encampment. ... Several inhabitants approach but not in a friendly manner. “Yeah?” challenges a man, with a hawkish Native American complexion. “I presumed this was a public park.” “You presumed wrong. It’s private.” 2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, pages 122-123:
2. Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
   • 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. 2022 August 21, Anton Troianovski, “Brazen Attack Near Moscow Rattles Russians”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • This was not the first disagreement between the ultra-hawkish Bolton and the occasionally more intervention-skeptic Trump. 2019 September 10, Christian Britschgi, “Ultra-Hawk John Bolton Fired From Trump Administration”, in Reason:
   • The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion.
   • But before the letter was finalized, it drew denunciation from the hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee. 2020 July 1, Dan Friedman, “Congressional Democrats Are Tying Themselves Into Knots About Whether to Restrict Aid to Israel”, in Mother Jones:
3. Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.
   • The Federal Reserve's recent statement on the slowing of inflation was interpreted as hawkish by the market.

Forms

Antonyms

dovish · dovish

Deriveds

hawkishly · unhawkish · hawkishness

Relateds

war hawk

Synonyms

bellicose

Translations (19)

es falconino (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · gl batallante (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · fr va-t-en-guerre (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · gl belicoso (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · fr batailleur (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · ru ястреби́ный (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · de falkenhaft (favoring increasing interest rates) · de falkenartig (resembling a hawk) · he ניצי (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · de wucherisch (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · fr bagarreur (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · ru милитари́стский (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · gl pugnaz (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · gl batallador (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · ru ура́-патриоти́ческий (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · de militaristisch (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · gl militarista (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · ru вои́нственный (supportive of warlike foreign policy) · el πολεμοχαρής (supportive of warlike foreign policy)