different between hawkish vs mawkish

English

Etymology

hawk +? -ish

Adjective

hawkish (comparative more hawkish, superlative most hawkish)

1. Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.

   Synonym: bellicose

   Antonym: dovish
2. Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.

   Antonym: dovish

Derived terms

• hawkishly
• hawkishness

Related terms

• war hawk

Translations

Further reading

• war hawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Wishkah

English

Alternative forms

• maukish (obsolete)

Etymology

From mawk +? -ish.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?m??k??/
• (cot–caught merger, NCVS, Canada) IPA^(key): /?m??k??/

Adjective

mawkish (comparative more mawkish, superlative most mawkish)

1. (archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy.
2. (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
3. Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment; maudlin.
   • 2014 August 11, w:Dave Itzkoff, "Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide," New York Times

     Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.

Synonyms

• (excessively or falsely sentimental): cutesy, schmaltzy

Antonyms

• (excessively or falsely sentimental): rational

Anagrams

• hawkism