right-wing

right-wing

See also: rightwing and right wing

English

Alternative forms

• rightwing, right wing

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

1. (politics) Of political ideologies: opposing political and social equality, especially conservative, traditional, and/or reactionary politics.
   • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:

     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.

Synonyms

• rightish, right
• conservative (particularly US, Canada, and UK)
• Tory (particularly the UK)

Antonyms

• left-wing
• liberal

Hyponyms

• aristocratic
• conservative
• monarchist
• reactionary
• theocratic

Related terms

• right wing
• right-winger

Translations

resisting political change

Catalan: dretà (ca) m, dreter m Chinese: Mandarin: 右派 (zh) (yòupài), 右翼 (zh) (yòuyì) Czech: pravicový (cs) Dutch: rechts (nl) Faroese: høgravendur Finnish: oikeisto- (fi), oikeistolainen (fi) French: droitier (fr), droit (fr) Galician: dereitista (gl) German: rechte (de), rechtsgerichtet Greek: δεξιός (el) (dexiós) Hindi: दक्षिण-पंथ (dakṣiṇ-panth), दक्षिण-पंथी (dakṣiṇ-panthī) Irish: den eite deis Japanese: 右派 (ja) (うは, uha), 右翼 (ja) (うよく, uyoku) Korean: 우익(右翼) (u'ik), 우파(右派) (upa) Latvian: labējs Portuguese: de direita Romanian: de dreapta Russian: пра́вый (ru) (právyj) Spanish: derechista (es) Swedish: höger- (sv) Thai: ฝ่ายขวา (th) (fàai-kwǎa) Welsh: asgell dde, adain dde

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