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left-wing

left-wing adjective: of political ideologies: favoring political, social, and economic equality.

Adjective

left-wing (comparative more left-wing, superlative most left-wing)

  1. Of political ideologies: favoring political, social, and economic equality.
    • From the start of its operations in Colombia, the company was on guard against the decadeslong civil strife in the country between left-wing guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups, witnesses have testified.2007 July 13, Kyle Whitmire, “Suit in U.S. Over Murders in Colombia”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021
    Synonyms:
    left, leftish, liberal

left-wing meaning in Malayalam, Arabic, Malay and Thai

left-wing in Malayalam

leftist, socialist, communist
ഇടതുപക്ഷമായ, അമിതവാദിയായ, ഇടതുപക്ഷ രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിൽ വിശ്വസിക്കുന്ന, തീവ്ര ഇടതുപക്ഷമായ, സ്ഥിതിസമത്വവാദിയായ, കമ്മ്യൂണിസ്റ്റായ

left-wing in Arabic

favoring political, social, and economic equality
يَسَارِيّ yasāriyy

left-wing in Malay

favoring political, social, and economic equality
sayap kiri

left-wing in Thai

favoring political, social, and economic equality
ฝ่ายซ้าย fàai-sáai
More languagesFewer languages
left-wing in Vietnamese
cánh tả, tả phái

Synonyms of left-wing

Antonyms

Forms of left-wing

comparativemore left-wing
superlativemost left-wing
alternative formleftwing
alternative formleft wing

Origin of left-wing

From the seating arrangement in the French parliament after the French Revolution.

Words formed from left-wing

Phrases with left-wing

Questions about left-wing

What does left-wing mean?
Left-wing means of political ideologies: favoring political, social, and economic equality.
What is left-wing in Malayalam?
Left-wing in Malayalam is ഇടതുപക്ഷമായ, അമിതവാദിയായ, ഇടതുപക്ഷ രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിൽ വിശ്വസിക്കുന്ന. See Left-wing meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is left-wing?
Left-wing is an adjective.

Words near left-wing in the dictionary

  1. left-overs
  2. left-recursive
  3. left-to-right
  4. left-to-right assimilation
  5. left-to-right assimilations
  6. left-wing
  7. left-wing anarchism
  8. left-wing anarchist
  9. left-wing anarchists
  10. left-wing populism
  11. left-winger

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: left-wing (page history and authors); left-wing (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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