RIGHT-WINGER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: right-winger

Meaning:

A member of a right wing political party

Synonyms:

right-winger; rightist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("right-winger" is a kind of...):

conservative; conservativist (a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "right-winger"):

monarchist; royalist (an advocate of the principles of monarchy)

Tory (a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative)