hawkish
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈhɔːkɪʃ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːkɪʃ/
- Rhymes: -ɔːkɪʃ
Adjective edit
hawkish (comparative more hawkish, superlative most hawkish)
- Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
- 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[1], →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.
- 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.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
resembling a hawk
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supportive of warlike foreign policy
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Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English hawkish.
Adjective edit
hawkish (strong nominative masculine singular hawkisher, comparative hawkisher, superlative am hawkishsten)
- (stock market, uncommon) hawkish
- 2022 July 13, Kornelius Purps, “EUR-USD: Parität hält, aber wie lange noch?”, in Wallstreet Online[2]:
- 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 […]
Declension edit
Positive forms of hawkish
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist hawkish | sie ist hawkish | es ist hawkish | sie sind hawkish | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | hawkisher | hawkishe | hawkishes | hawkishe |
genitive | hawkishen | hawkisher | hawkishen | hawkisher | |
dative | hawkishem | hawkisher | hawkishem | hawkishen | |
accusative | hawkishen | hawkishe | hawkishes | hawkishe | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der hawkishe | die hawkishe | das hawkishe | die hawkishen |
genitive | des hawkishen | der hawkishen | des hawkishen | der hawkishen | |
dative | dem hawkishen | der hawkishen | dem hawkishen | den hawkishen | |
accusative | den hawkishen | die hawkishe | das hawkishe | die hawkishen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein hawkisher | eine hawkishe | ein hawkishes | (keine) hawkishen |
genitive | eines hawkishen | einer hawkishen | eines hawkishen | (keiner) hawkishen | |
dative | einem hawkishen | einer hawkishen | einem hawkishen | (keinen) hawkishen | |
accusative | einen hawkishen | eine hawkishe | ein hawkishes | (keine) hawkishen |
Comparative forms of hawkish
Superlative forms of hawkish
Further reading edit
- “hawkish” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon