hawkish
/ˈhoːkəʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.43 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
Example Sentences
- "Luisa locks her VW and crosses the scrub to the encampment. ... Several inhabitants approach but not in a friendly manner. “Yeah?” challenges a man, with a hawkish Native American complexion. “I presumed this was a public park.” “You presumed wrong. It’s private.”"
- "The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion."
- "This was not the first disagreement between the ultra-hawkish Bolton and the occasionally more intervention-skeptic Trump."
- "But before the letter was finalized, it drew denunciation from the hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee."
- "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."
- "The Federal Reserve's recent statement on the slowing of inflation was interpreted as hawkish by the market."
Etymology
Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-der.? Proto-Germanic *habukaz Proto-West Germanic *habuk Old English hafoc Middle English hauk English hawk Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English hawkish From hawk + -ish.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhoːkəʃ/
- British English: /ˈhɔːkɪʃ/
Inflected Forms
more hawkish (comparative)
most hawkish (superlative)