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)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- conservative, right, rightish, Tory
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
| comparative | more right-wing |
|---|---|
| superlative | most right-wing |
| alternative form | rightwing |
| alternative form | right 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
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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