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right-wing

right-wing adjective: of a view, group, or ideology: emphasizing conservatism, traditional values, free-market capitalism, and limited government intervention.

Adjective

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

  1. Of a view, group, or ideology: emphasizing conservatism, traditional values, free-market capitalism, and limited government intervention.
    • It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn
    • 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

right-wing meaning in Hindi, Malayalam, Arabic and Malay

right-wing in Hindi

resisting political change
दक्षिण-पंथ dakṣiṇ-panth, दक्षिण-पंथी dakṣiṇ-panthī

right-wing in Malayalam

ultra-conservative, conservative, rightist
വലതുപക്ഷച്ചായ്വുള്ള, യാഥാസ്ഥിതികമായ, യാഥാസ്ഥിതിക കക്ഷിയിലെ അംഗമായ, പ്രതിലോമകാരിയായ, വലതുപക്ഷരാഷ്ട്രീയ കക്ഷിക്കാരനായ, പ്രതിലോമമായ

right-wing in Arabic

resisting political change
يَمِينِيّ yamīniyy

right-wing in Malay

resisting political change
sayap kanan
More languagesFewer languages
right-wing in Thai
ฝ่ายขวา fàai-kwǎa
right-wing in Vietnamese
hữu phái, cánh hữu

Synonyms of right-wing

Antonyms

Forms of right-wing

comparativemore right-wing
superlativemost right-wing
alternative formrightwing
alternative formright wing

Origin of right-wing

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

Words formed from right-wing

Questions about right-wing

What does right-wing mean?
Right-wing means of a view, group, or ideology: emphasizing conservatism, traditional values, free-market capitalism, and limited government intervention.
What is right-wing in Hindi?
Right-wing in Hindi is दक्षिण-पंथ (dakṣiṇ-panth), दक्षिण-पंथी (dakṣiṇ-panthī). See Right-wing meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is right-wing?
Right-wing is an adjective.

Words near right-wing in the dictionary

  1. right-to-left assimilations
  2. right-to-life
  3. right-to-lifer
  4. right-to-lifers
  5. right-trunctable prime
  6. right-wing
  7. right-wing populism
  8. right-wing socialism
  9. right-winger
  10. right-wingers
  11. rightable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: right-wing (page history and authors); right-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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