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Hawkist vs Hawkish - What's the difference?

hawkist | hawkish |

As a noun hawkist

is someone who espouses hawkism.

As an adjective hawkish is

supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.

hawkist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who espouses hawkism
  • * 1987 , Gulab Mishra, Indo-Pakistan Relations, p 384
    • The Socialist Party's Janata said in its editorial that it would be better to talk to Bhutto than to push him into a cornor "leading to his replacement by a less mercurial but more hawkist leader.
  • * 1897 , A Bagot, Sport and travel in India and Central America - Page 152
    • We mastered the intricacies of jerseys, hoods, and lures pretty well, but nowhere did it say in that book what the proper dress of the hawkist should be.
  • * 2004 David Pham, International Politico -
    • In America the anti-war activists protested the hawkists with violence. In 1969 President Richard Nixon Vietnamized the Vietnam war after the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese bo doi suffered heavy casualties during the Tet Offensive (1968).

    hawkish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective) (War Hawk)
  • Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
    • The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion.
  • Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.
    • The Federal Reserve's recent statement on the slowing of inflation was interpreted as hawkish by the market.

    Antonyms

    * (bellicose) dovish

    Derived terms

    * hawkishly * hawkishness