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rightthink

rightthink noun: synonym of goodthink.

Noun

rightthink (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of goodthink.
    • There is a rightthink and a wrongthink, as Orwell predicted, and pretty well everyone knows what they are. It’s very difficult to get students to even hint at the wrongthink, therefore difficult to get people to discuss both sides of an issue. In this scenario, O’Brien has been replaced by angry...2017 May 12, Daniel Robinson, “Free speech on campus: are we being too careful not to offend?”, in University Affairs
    • As a parent, you can’t control everything. If something is truly beyond the pale, of course, step in and fight. But there’s always going to be something you don’t love. You can’t cocoon your kids in a vanilla fortress of rightthink. It’s going to be OK.2023 October 20, David Ramsey, “Busybody Republicans and their neurotic quest to control public education”, in Arkansas Times
    Synonyms:
    goodthink

Synonyms of rightthink

Origin of rightthink

Compound of right + think, modeled after wrongthink, ultimately modeled on crimethink from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Questions about rightthink

What does rightthink mean?
Rightthink means synonym of goodthink.
What part of speech is rightthink?
Rightthink is a noun.

Words near rightthink in the dictionary

  1. rightsless
  2. rightslessness
  3. rightsome
  4. rightsowner
  5. rightsowners
  6. rightthink
  7. righturd
  8. righturds
  9. rightward
  10. rightwardly
  11. rightwards

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