bullish
/ˈbʊlɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Optimistic, confident; overly or foolishly optimistic or hopeful.
adj
Characterized by rising value.
Example Sentences
- "He was heavily criticised for his bullish behaviour."
- "Sitting on the edge of the stage at the show’s end, draped in a flag and singing You Need Me, a bullish screw-you written when he was 15, he didn’t look much like a man still plagued by nerves over headlining Glastonbury."
- "It [the plan] was bullish about the prospects for BR winning new business and retaining what it had, but recognised that this would depend on the extent to which equipment would enable improved services at lower costs."
- "This week, BlackRock's Larry Fink noted that sovereign wealth funds had bought the dip by snapping up bitcoin while it traded just above $80,000, in a sign that parts of the investment community remained bullish even as prices fell to their lowest level in eight months."
- "[P]oliticians across the EU and the Balkans hope that Montenegro’s momentum towards membership will make clear what is possible, and how to do it. The Montenegrin prime minister, Milojko Spajić, is bullish. “Enlargement is drawing even closer,” he said in July, after the country concluded chapters on EU competition policy and its customs union."
Etymology
Etymology tree English bull Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English bullish From bull + -ish.
Inflected Forms
more bullish (comparative)
most bullish (superlative)