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hawkish
adjective as in aggressive
adjective as in chilly
adjective as in cold
adjective as in combative
adjective as in cool
adjective as in fighting
Strong matches
adjective as in freezing
adjective as in shivery
Weak matches
- algid
- arctic
- below freezing
- below zero
- benumbed
- biting
- bitter
- blasting
- bleak
- boreal
- brisk
- brumal
- chill
- chilled
- chilly
- cool
- crisp
- cutting
- frigid
- frore
- frosty
- frozen
- gelid
- glacial
- have goose bumps
- hiemal
- hyperborean
- icebox
- iced
- icy
- inclement
- intense
- keen
- nipping
- nippy
- numbed
- numbing
- one-dog night
- penetrating
- piercing
- polar
- raw
- rimy
- severe
- sharp
- Siberian
- sleety
- snappy
- snowy
- stinging
- two-dog night
- wintry
Example Sentences
Rubio, a hawkish Republican who has consistently favored American military intervention overseas, nominally diverges from Grenell and other America First proponents who say that they to want prioritize U.S. interests rather act as a world policeman.
Senator Marco Rubio - who shares Waltz's hawkish views on China - is expected to be Trump's future secretary of state, sources have told the BBC's US partner, CBS News.
Trump was, and is, hawkish on Iran.
Democrats pushed immigration reform and ethnic solidarity as key planks in their Latino platform, even though surveys have shown that Latinos care more about economic issues and have become increasingly hawkish on the border now that their familes have established themselves in this country.
The new Defence Minister, Israel Katz, who up until yesterday was the foreign minister, is more hawkish and much more in step with his boss’s thinking.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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