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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 liberalismplay

  Familiarity information: EXTREME RIGHT-WINGER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EXTREME RIGHT-WINGER (noun)


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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