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Dovish vs Dotish - What's the difference?

dovish | dotish |

As adjectives the difference between dovish and dotish

is that dovish is pertaining to a dove; dove-like while dotish is (archaic) foolish; weak; imbecile.

dovish

English

Alternative forms

* doveish

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a dove; dove-like.
  • Peaceful, conciliatory.
  • * 2006 July 18, (Jonathan Freedland), , page 3:
    • Doubtless an expression of frustration at the UN secretary general, who has long been too dovish for Bush administration tastes.
  • *2012 , (Christopher Clark), The Sleepwalkers , Penguin 2013, p. 210:
  • *:Caillaux bypassed his Foreign Office in order to impose his own dovish agenda on the negotiations with Berlin […].

    • Antonyms

    * (peaceful) hawkish

    dotish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) foolish; weak; imbecile
    • (Webster 1913)