right-wing

1. 1.

   believing in or supporting tenets of the political right

   Synonymsrightist

   Similarright

Questions about right-wing

What does right-wing mean?

right-wing means "believing in or supporting tenets of the political right".

How many syllables are in right-wing?

right-wing has 2 syllables: righ-t-wing. The stress falls on "righ".

What is another word for right-wing?

Close synonyms include rightist. 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 right-wing a common word?

right-wing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.