war hawk

Questions about war hawk

What is another word for war hawk?

It depends which war hawk you mean. In the sense “an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations”, the synonyms are hawk. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of war hawk?

WordNet records no antonym for war hawk. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for war hawk come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of war hawk

• Full entry for war hawkAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for war hawkWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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