Meaning

1 senses
  1. Overly patriotic or nationalistic, often with an element of favouring war or an aggressive foreign policy.

    My editorial angered both the jingoistic war hawks and the anti-war protesters.

    hurrapatriotisch, chauvinistisch, ultranationalistisch

More definitions
  • fanatically patriotic

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Vatnik denotes a dedicated jingoistic follower of propaganda from the Russian government.

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  2. Nearly every United States president in any number of past decades has pursued a policy of jingoistic warmongering.

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Translations

4 languages
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By meaning 1
overly patriotic or nationalistic:

Forms

more jingoistic, most jingoistic
Comparativemore jingoistic Lesson
Superlativemost jingoistic Lesson

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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