hawkish

Adjective

hawkish (comparative more hawkish, superlative most hawkish)

1. Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
   • 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.”2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, pages 122-123
2. 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.
   • This was not the first disagreement between the ultra-hawkish Bolton and the occasionally more intervention-skeptic Trump.2019 September 10, Christian Britschgi, “Ultra-Hawk John Bolton Fired From Trump Administration”, in Reason

   Synonyms:

   bellicose

   Antonyms:

   dovish

3. 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:

   dovish