jingoistic

English

WOTD – 15 November 2017

Etymology

jingo +‎ -istic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡəʊˈɪst.ɪk/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡoʊˈɪst.ɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪstɪk
• Hyphenation: jin‧go‧ist‧ic

Adjective

jingoistic (comparative more jingoistic, superlative most jingoistic)

1. Overly patriotic or nationalistic, often with an element of favouring war or an aggressive foreign policy.

   My editorial angered both the jingoistic war hawks and the anti-war protesters.

   • 1915, Joseph McCabe, “The Responsibility of the Churches”, in The War and the Churches, London: Watts & Co. 17 Johnson's Court, Fleet Street, E.C., →OCLC, page 22:

     The truth is that all classes—Christian and non-Christian—have yielded fatally to the pernicious interpretation which interested politicians, soldiers, manufacturers, and Jingoistic writers have put on the real economic needs of the country.

   • 1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter 14, in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC, § 2, page 86:

     All this jingoistic bombast, however, was directed toward defending, not so much the national vernacular as the national belles lettres.

   • 1982, “Replicating Systems Concepts: Self-replicating Lunar Factory and Demonstration”, in Robert A. Freitas, Jr., William P. Gilbreath, editors, Advanced Automation for Space Missions […] (NASA Conference Publication; 2255), Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scientific and Technical Information Branch, →OCLC, page 244, column 2:

     If we continue to be limited to our exceedingly fragile existence on spaceship Earth, a natural disaster or our own jingoistic or ecological foolhardiness is almost certain to terminate our existence perhaps centuries or millenia^{[sic – meaning millennia]} from today.

   • 2002 February 7, Harvey Araton, “Jingoism Is the Way of the Olympics”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     But are these Olympics also destined to become a jingoistic, flag-waving convention, a world-alienating Patriot Games?

   • 2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50: As Britain hurtles towards the precipice, truth and democracy are in short supply”, in The Observer‎^[2], London, archived from the original on 17 May 2017:

     This approach plays fast and loose with ordinary people's livelihoods. Yet still, with jingoistic horns and trumpets drowning out the roar of the deep, the stampede towards the cliff's edge gathers pace.

Synonyms

• hawkish

Antonyms

• dovish
• unjingoistic

Hypernyms

• chauvinistic, nationalistic, patriotic
• aggressive, hostile; see also Thesaurus:combative

Derived terms

• jingoistically
• unjingoistic

Related terms

• by jingo
• jingo
• jingoish
• jingoism
• jingoist
• jingoize

Translations

overly patriotic or nationalistic

• Arabic: جنغوي
• Finnish: kansalliskiihkoinen
• French: cocardier (fr), chauvin (fr)
• German: hurrapatriotisch (de), chauvinistisch (de), ultranationalistisch
• Greek: σοβινιστικός (el) (sovinistikós)
• Spanish: jingoísta, patriotero (es)
• Swedish: chauvinistisk (sv), storsvensk (sv), yverboren (sv)

Further reading

• jingoism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia