leftist

Other forms of leftist

plural

leftists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about leftist

What does leftist mean?

leftist means "a person who belongs to the political left". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in leftist?

leftist has 2 syllables: lef-tist. The stress falls on "lef". In IPA it is /ˈlɛftɪst/.

What is another word for leftist?

Close synonyms include collectivist, left-winger, left-of-center, left-wing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leftist a common word?

leftist is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.