bullish

adjective bull·ish \ ˈbu̇-lish also ˈbə- \

|Updated on: 6 Aug 2018

Examples: bullish in a Sentence

Definition of bullish

1 : suggestive of a bull (as in brawniness)

2 a : marked by, tending to cause, or hopeful of rising prices (as in a stock market)

a bullish market

bullish policies

bullish investors

b : optimistic about something's or someone's prospects

bullish on the company's future

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bullishly

adverb

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bullishness

noun

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Examples of bullish in a Sentence

Members of her party are bullish about her reelection.
They are bullish about the future of the product.

Recent Examples of bullish from the Web

Oil had rallied sharply in recent weeks as supply issues around the world bolstered the market and bullish speculative investors added to positions.

— sarah mcfarlane, WSJ, "Oil Tumbles on Libya’s Returning Supply," 11 July 2018
These factors, some bullish for oil prices, some bearish, may offset each other.

— The Economist, "The American president is stirring up trouble in a volatile oil market," 4 July 2018
Even that was viewed as bullish by nonproliferation experts considering the scale of North Korea's weapons program and its history of evasion and reluctance to allow verification of disarmament agreements.

— deb riechmann and matthew pennington, Fox News, "Experts see risks in US plan to dismantle NKorea's nukes," 4 July 2018
Sincere attempts to overcome this vulnerability have previously been made via selecting a handful of conservative, medium, and bullish best estimates for each parameter value and then taking an average across them.

— liv boeree, Vox, "Why haven’t we found aliens yet?," 3 July 2018
Even that was viewed as bullish by nonproliferation experts considering the scale of North Korea’s weapons program and its history of evasion and reluctance to allow verification of disarmament agreements.

— deb riechmann, The Seattle Times, "Experts see risks in US plan to dismantle NKorea’s nukes," 2 July 2018
Throwing a bit of cold water on that bullish analysis was a survey released Wednesday from Parrot Analytics, which says that 49 percent of Americans do not want to pay for any streaming video service.

— paul bond, The Hollywood Reporter, "Netflix to Hit 90 Million U.S. Subscribers in Ten Years, Analyst Predicts," 27 June 2018
The bullish analysis anticipates about 9,600 new jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in extra disposable income.

— jon chesto, BostonGlobe.com, "Mass. retailers tout economic gains as selling point for cutting the sales tax," 24 May 2018
In a press release, Summerfest officials were bullish about the festival's success this year.

— piet levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Summerfest in Milwaukee reports lowest attendance in at least 25 years," 13 July 2018

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First Known Use of bullish

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in the meaning defined at sense 1

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BULLISH Defined for English Language Learners

bullish

adjective

Definition of bullish for English Language Learners

: hopeful or confident that something or someone will be successful : optimistic about the future of something or someone
: expecting the price of stocks to go up : characterized by rising stock prices