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EXTREME RIGHT-WINGER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does extreme right-winger mean?
• EXTREME RIGHT-WINGER (noun)
The noun EXTREME RIGHT-WINGER has 1 sense:
1. an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism
Familiarity information: EXTREME RIGHT-WINGER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
extreme right-winger; reactionary; ultraconservative
Hypernyms ("extreme 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 "extreme right-winger"):
Bourbon (a reactionary politician in the United States (usually from the South))
Blimp; Colonel Blimp (any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low))
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