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Meaning of "hawkish" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HAWKISH

hawkish  [ˈhɔːkɪʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HAWKISH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hawkish is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HAWKISH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hawkish

War hawk

A war hawk, or simply hawk for short, is a term used in politics for someone favoring war in a debate over whether to go to war, or whether to continue or escalate an existing war. War hawks are the opposite of war doves. The terms are derived by analogy with the birds of the same name: hawks are predators that attack and eat other animals, whereas doves mostly eat seeds and fruit and are historically a symbol of peace.

Definition of hawkish in the English dictionary

The definition of hawkish in the dictionary is favouring the use or display of force rather than diplomacy to achieve foreign policy goals.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HAWKISH


bleakish
ˈbliːkɪʃ
clerkish
ˈklɑːkɪʃ
cliquish
ˈkliːkɪʃ
darkish
ˈdɑːkɪʃ
freakish
ˈfriːkɪʃ
gawkish
ˈɡɔːkɪʃ
larkish
ˈlɑːkɪʃ
mawkish
ˈmɔːkɪʃ
murkish
ˈmɜːkɪʃ
parkish
ˈpɑːkɪʃ
peakish
ˈpiːkɪʃ
perkish
ˈpɜːkɪʃ
quirkish
ˈkwɜːkɪʃ
sneakish
ˈsniːkɪʃ
spookish
ˈspuːkɪʃ
Turkish
ˈtɜːkɪʃ
weakish
ˈwiːkɪʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HAWKISH

hawkbell
hawkbill
hawkbit
Hawke
hawker
hawkey
Hawkeye State
hawkie
hawking
Hawking radiation
Hawkins
hawkishly
hawkishness
hawkit
hawklike
hawknose
Hawks
hawksbill
hawksbill turtle
hawkshaw

WORDS THAT END LIKE HAWKISH

blackish
blockish
bookish
brackish
briskish
dankish
duskish
folkish
Frankish
lakish
monkish
peckish
pinkish
prankish
puckish
punkish
rakish
sickish
stockish
thickish

Synonyms and antonyms of hawkish in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hawkish» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HAWKISH

Find out the translation of hawkish to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hawkish from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hawkish» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

鹰派
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de línea dura
570 millions of speakers

English

hawkish
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तेजतर्रार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تشددا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ястребом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hawkish
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কঠোর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

belliciste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hawkish
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Falken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

タカ派の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

매파
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hawkish
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hiếu chiến
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கழுகுப்பார்வை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हॉकिश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şahin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sostiene la linea dura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

jastrzębi
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

яструбом
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

agresivă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πολεμοχαρής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aggressiewe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hökaktiga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hawkish
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hawkish

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HAWKISH»

The term «hawkish» is regularly used and occupies the 100.452 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HAWKISH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hawkish

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAWKISH»

Discover the use of hawkish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hawkish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
New Zionism and the Foreign Policy System of Israel
Harkabi, in his excellent work on Israeli responses to Arab attitudes, outlined three master conceptions, the 'hawkish-hawkish,' the 'hawkish- dovish,' and the ' dovish-dovish.'47 The 'hawkish-hawkish' conception is based on the premise that  ...
Ofira Seliktar, 1986
2
Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats
... Anschluss Hawkish Hawkish Hawkish Dovish Sudetenland Hawkish Hawkish Hawkish Dovish after Allied concessions More More hawkish hawkish Poland Hawkish Hawkish Hawkish Hawkish after Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact More hawkish ...
Daryl G. Press, 2007
3
Disarmed Democracies: Domestic Institutions and the Use of Force
According to the amended model. a hawkish prime minister in a majority government will be very unlikely to use force when a majority in parliament opposes conflict. At the same time. a hawkish premier and parliament will have no domestic ...
David P. Auerswald, 2000
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A Student's Writing Guide: How to Plan and Write Successful ...
An example What part did President Ronald Reagan's so—called 'hawkish' policies play in the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the Cold War? The one—line answer to the question may initially be phrased in such alternative terms ...
Gordon Taylor, 2009
5
Interests, Institutions, and Information: Domestic Politics ...
When the legislature is more hawkish, however, they should have real trouble making international agreements. Conversely, in Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, when the legislature is a hawk, cooperation will still be very likely since ...
Helen V. Milner, 1997
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Decisionmaking in a Glass House: Mass Media, Public Opinion, ...
We include the written instructions as Appendix A? As in the case of congressional opinion, we wished to capture the extent to which newsmagazine coverage was hawkish or dovish. The unit of analysis was the paragraph, which could be ...
Brigitte L. Nacos, Robert Y. Shapiro, Pierangelo Isernia, 2000
7
Pressing Israel
Inquirerheadline (2/28/09, A2): “Israeli Hard-Liner Fails To Get Support” (i.e., from “his chief moderate rival [Livni].”) ◅ Inquirer sub-headline (2/24/09): “...hard-liner Netanyahu.” ◅ A.P., (2/13/09, Inq., A3): “hawkish,” “hard-line,” “hawkish bloc ...
Lee S. Bender & Jerome R. Verlin
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How to Sound Clever: Master the 600 English Words You ...
advocating war or aggression hawkish derives from 'hawk', a warlike bird; the direct opposite of dovish (see p. 55) e.g. Towards the end of his life, Elvis Presley amassed an arsenal of weapons – including 32 handguns – because chronic drug ...
Hubert van den Bergh, 2010
9
American Foreign Policy and The Politics of Fear: Threat ...
5. Hawkish. biases. Daniel. Kahneman. and. Jonathan. Renshon. In a short article in Foreign Policy in 2007, we put forward a hypothesis of “directionality” in cognitive biases that generated a fair amount of debate and some controversy ...
A. Trevor Thrall, Jane K. Cramer, 2009
10
Financial Stability Policy in the Euro Zone: The Political ...
What we have shown is that with the possibility of a downturn, it is not sequentially rational for the regulator to play the strategy of (L, = 0,L, = 0) that we specified as a 'hawkish' strategy. This is because the regulator cannot stick to her  ...
Gundbert Scherf, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HAWKISH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hawkish is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Carney stretches his hawkish wings and the pound takes flight
The comment has removed some doubt about rate rises and whether the decision is as finely balanced as various BOE members have ... «ForexLive, Jul 15»
2
Hawkish talk drives pound to fresh one-week high - orders - Forexlive
Hawkish talk drives pound to fresh one-week high - orders ... continued after BOE super-dove Miles even got onto the hawkish bandwagon. «ForexLive, Jul 15»
3
Doveish Miles turns hawkish on rates | The Times
The Bank of England's most doveish rate-setter has hinted that there are signs that business is winning the battle to increase productivity amid ... «The Times, Jul 15»
4
Standard Digital News : : Business - Shilling continues its downward …
Standard Investment Bank (SIB) analysts said the 'hawkish rate hike' would only offer "temporal relief to the currency given persistent weakness ... «The Standard Digital News, Jul 15»
5
Euro rises to 1.1216 on Greek deal optimism before retreating on …
Euro climbed to as high as 1.1216 before retreating to 1.1032 after relatively hawkish comments from Fed's Chair Janet Yellen. Eurogroup ... «FXStreet, Jul 15»
6
Europe's investment banks turn hawkish on US
European investment banks have cut thousands of jobs in the US since the financial crisis in a desperate attempt to return their American ... «Financial News, Jul 15»
7
AJ Hawkish On Summer Hit Recall
Last year at a celebrity golf tournament, A.J. Hawk tackled a fan who wanted to be hit by an NFL player. A video went viral. This year, on the eve ... «Scout, Jul 15»
8
GBP to Face Larger Advance on Hawkish BoE, Stronger UK Wage …
The narrowing risk for a Euro-Zone breakup paired with signs of a stronger U.K. recovery should heighten the appeal of the British Pound as ... «DailyFX, Jul 15»
9
EUR/USD falls to support fresh Greek worries, hawkish Fed comments
EUR/USD has reversed a significant portion of its gains (related to optimism on Greece), trading under 1.1140 after having reached a peak of ... «Forex Crunch, Jul 15»
10
FOMC Minutes might be perceived as slightly more hawkish – TDS
... is a risk that the minutes hint at a more balanced discussion (which may be perceived as slightly more “hawkish”) on rate hikes later this year. «FXStreet, Jul 15»

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