Meaning

Having a muscular physique, built ‘like a bull’..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a muscular physique, built ‘like a bull’.
2. Aggressively self-confident or assertive; bullheaded.
3. Optimistic, confident; overly or foolishly optimistic or hopeful.
4. (stock market, of the price of financial instruments) Characterized by rising value.

Example Sentences

He was heavily criticised for his bullish behaviour.

Sitting on the edge of the stage at the show’s end, draped in a flag and singing You Need Me, a bullish screw-you written when he was 15, he didn’t look much like a man still plagued by nerves over headlining Glastonbury.

It [the plan] was bullish about the prospects for BR winning new business and retaining what it had, but recognised that this would depend on the extent to which equipment would enable improved services at lower costs.

This week, BlackRock's Larry Fink noted that sovereign wealth funds had bought the dip by snapping up bitcoin while it traded just above $80,000, in a sign that parts of the investment community remained bullish even as prices fell to their lowest level in eight months.

Word Forms

• more bullish
• most bullish

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