hawkish

English

Etymology

hawk +‎ -ish

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːkɪʃ/

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• (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːkɪʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːkɪʃ

Adjective

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^[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.

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.

Derived terms

• hawkishly
• hawkishness

Related terms

• war hawk

Translations

resembling a hawk

• German: falkenartig (de)

supportive of warlike foreign policy

• French: bagarreur (fr) m, batailleur (fr) m
• German: wucherisch, militaristisch (de)
• Greek: πολεμοχαρής (el) m or f (polemocharís)
• Russian: вои́нственный (ru) (voínstvennyj), ура́-патриоти́ческий (ru) (urá-patriotíčeskij), милитари́стский (ru) (militarístskij), ястреби́ный (ru) (jastrebínyj)
• Spanish: falconino

Further reading

• war hawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Wishkah

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English hawkish.

Adjective

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^[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

Positive forms of hawkish

number & gender		singular			plural
		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

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist hawkisher	sie ist hawkisher	es ist hawkisher	sie sind hawkisher
strong declension (without article)	nominative	hawkisherer	hawkishere	hawkisheres	hawkishere
	genitive	hawkisheren	hawkisherer	hawkisheren	hawkisherer
	dative	hawkisherem	hawkisherer	hawkisherem	hawkisheren
	accusative	hawkisheren	hawkishere	hawkisheres	hawkishere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der hawkishere	die hawkishere	das hawkishere	die hawkisheren
	genitive	des hawkisheren	der hawkisheren	des hawkisheren	der hawkisheren
	dative	dem hawkisheren	der hawkisheren	dem hawkisheren	den hawkisheren
	accusative	den hawkisheren	die hawkishere	das hawkishere	die hawkisheren
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein hawkisherer	eine hawkishere	ein hawkisheres	(keine) hawkisheren
	genitive	eines hawkisheren	einer hawkisheren	eines hawkisheren	(keiner) hawkisheren
	dative	einem hawkisheren	einer hawkisheren	einem hawkisheren	(keinen) hawkisheren
	accusative	einen hawkisheren	eine hawkishere	ein hawkisheres	(keine) hawkisheren

Superlative forms of hawkish

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist am hawkishsten	sie ist am hawkishsten	es ist am hawkishsten	sie sind am hawkishsten
strong declension (without article)	nominative	hawkishster	hawkishste	hawkishstes	hawkishste
	genitive	hawkishsten	hawkishster	hawkishsten	hawkishster
	dative	hawkishstem	hawkishster	hawkishstem	hawkishsten
	accusative	hawkishsten	hawkishste	hawkishstes	hawkishste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der hawkishste	die hawkishste	das hawkishste	die hawkishsten
	genitive	des hawkishsten	der hawkishsten	des hawkishsten	der hawkishsten
	dative	dem hawkishsten	der hawkishsten	dem hawkishsten	den hawkishsten
	accusative	den hawkishsten	die hawkishste	das hawkishste	die hawkishsten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein hawkishster	eine hawkishste	ein hawkishstes	(keine) hawkishsten
	genitive	eines hawkishsten	einer hawkishsten	eines hawkishsten	(keiner) hawkishsten
	dative	einem hawkishsten	einer hawkishsten	einem hawkishsten	(keinen) hawkishsten
	accusative	einen hawkishsten	eine hawkishste	ein hawkishstes	(keine) hawkishsten

Further reading

• “hawkish” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon