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rightwing

rightwing is the alternative form of right-wing.

Meaning of right-wing

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

Forms of rightwing

comparativemore rightwing
superlativemost rightwing

Questions about rightwing

What is rightwing the alternative form of?
Rightwing is the alternative form of right-wing.

Words near rightwing in the dictionary

  1. righturds
  2. rightward
  3. rightwardly
  4. rightwards
  5. rightways
  6. rightwing
  7. rightwinger
  8. rightwingers
  9. rightwise
  10. rightwisely
  11. rightwiseness

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