rightist

1. 1.

   a member of a right wing political party

   Synonymsright-winger

   Broaderconservative

   NarrowermonarchistTory

1. 1.

   believing in or supporting tenets of the political right

   Synonymsright-wing

   Similarright

Other forms of rightist

plural

rightists·

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 rightist

What does rightist mean?

rightist means "a member of a right wing political party". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rightist?

rightist has 2 syllables: righ-tist. The stress falls on "righ". In IPA it is /ˈɹaɪtɪst/.

What is another word for rightist?

Close synonyms include right-winger, right-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 rightist a common word?

rightist 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.