right wing
conservative members of a political party; conservative party, conservative persons
Right-wing politics
In
politics, right-wing, the political right, and the right are terms used in the spectrum of
Left-Right Politics, and much like the opposite appellation of
Left-wing, it has a broad variety of definitions: the same name can, in politics, sometimes mean different things. However, it is generally used to refer to the segments of the
political spectrum often associated with any of several strains of
Conservatism,
Traditionalism,
Monarchism,
Right-libertarianism,
Royalism,
Corporatism, the
Religious Right,
Nationalism,
Militarism,
Producerism,
Nativism, or simply
Reactionism for the sake of being the opposite of left-wing politics.
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right wing
Noun
1. those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged
(synonym) right
(hypernym) faction, sect
(hyponym) religious right
right-wing
Adjective
1. believing in or supporting tenets of the political right
(synonym) rightist
(similar) right
Right-wing, rightist
A general descriptive term for any of several otherwise rather different, conservative, reactionary or fascist political ideologies, the common denominator of which is their qualified or enthusiastic support for the main features of the current social and economic order, accepting all (or nearly all) of its inequalities of wealth, status and privilege (or even in some cases support for a return to an earlier, even more inegalitarian and hierarchical political-economic order.) Right wing ideologies tend to emphasize the values of order, patriotism, social cohesion, and a personal sense of duty that makes the individual citizen who "knows his place" responsive to discipline from his political and social superiors. In America, the term has a somewhat more derogatory flavor than in Europe.
[See also:
ideology ,
legitimacy ,
left-wing ,
fascism ,
conservatism ]
right wing
Synonyms and related words:
Bircher, Bourbon, Epistle side, Tory, backward, bitter-ender, clockwise, conservatist, conservative, decanal side, dexter, dextral, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral, dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal, dextrorotary, dextrorse, die-hard, diehard, extreme right-winger, fogyish, fundamentalist, hard hat, imperialist, monarchist, nonprogressive, off, old liner, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-line, opposed to change, preservative, radical right, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, recto, right, right field, right hand, right of center, right side, right-hand, right-winger, right-wingish, rightist, royalist, social Darwinist, standpat, standpatter, starboard, starboard tack, tory, ultraconservative, unprogressive
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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