bullish

adjective

bull·ish ˈbu̇-lish

also ˈbə-

Synonyms of bullish

: suggestive of a bull (as in brawniness)

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

a bullish market

bullish policies

bullish investors

: optimistic about something's or someone's prospects

bullish on the company's future

bullishly adverb

bullishness noun

Examples of bullish in a Sentence

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

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Overall, Hanold remains bullish on CHRD, given its best-in-class balance sheet. — CNBC, 11 Oct. 2026 Republicans, meanwhile, are feeling increasingly bullish about their chances in Maine, New Hampshire and Minnesota, all states that went blue in the last presidential election. — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026 With global climate change enabling more tropical cyclones to rapidly intensify, the Hurricane Center has been making more bullish first forecasts for certain storms, including Isaias. — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026 Unsurprisingly, his first call is to be bullish on tech stocks—49 of them, to be exact. — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bullish

Word History

First Known Use

1566, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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