jingo

jingo

noun

Definition of JINGO

1

one who shows excessive favoritism towards his or her country <a jingo who thought other countries should automatically follow his country's policies>

Synonyms chauvinist, flag-waver, jingo, superpatriot

Related Words loyalist, patriot; hawk, warmonger; nativist

Near Antonyms internationalist; neutralist

2

one who urges or attempts to cause a war <the often bitter rhetoric between the jingoes and the committed pacifists>

Synonyms hawk, jingo, jingoist, militarist, war hawk

Related Words agitator, firebrand, fomenter, instigator, rabble-rouser; belligerent, combatant, militant; chauvinist

Near Antonyms peacemaker; peacekeeper

Antonyms dove, pacifist, peacenik