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rightist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rightist has 1 sense
- rightist(n = noun.person) right-winger - a member of a right wing political party; Array is a kind of conservative, conservativist
has particulars: fascist, monarchist, royalist, tory
Derived forms noun right wing1, noun rightism1, adjective rightist1
Adjective rightist has 1 sense
- rightist(s = adj.all) right-wing - believing in or supporting tenets of the political right; Array Derived form noun rightist1
THESAURUS
rightist
Bircher, Bourbon, Tory, bitter-ender, conservationist, conservatist, conservative, diehard, extreme right-winger, fogy, fundamentalist, hard hat, imperialist, laudator temporis acti, monarchist, mossback, old fogy, old liner, old school, radical right, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, right, right wing, right-winger, royalist, social Darwinist, standpat, standpatter, stick-in-the-mud, tory, ultraconservative
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