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extreme right-winger

extreme right-winger

1 8.4
A person with very strict traditional political views who strongly opposes social change
  • noun
  • /ɪkˈstrim raɪtˈwɪŋɡər/
translation icon : extremista de derecha
  • The best the extreme left-wing can do is shriek abuse at extreme right-wingers and each other in demonstrations that mostly show how out of touch they are.

Examples

  • Many people believe that the extreme right-winger is resistant to any form of social change.

  • The Republican Party has effectively been hijacked by extreme right-wingers.

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  • Mr. has legitimized a group of extreme right-wingers and conspiracy theorists that should never have received any media attention.

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  • We must take heed of what Noam Chomsky stated recently: that if we don't reach out to the so-called teabaggers, the extreme right-wingers will.

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  • During the debate, the extreme right-winger expressed views that shocked both his opponents and supporters.

  • An extreme right-winger might advocate for policies that strongly oppose immigration reforms.

Synonyms

conservative
vsextreme right-winger
306 4.4

A person who does not want big changes and likes traditional values

is more extreme in opposing progress and liberal ideas
right-winger
vsextreme right-winger
30 5.4

A person who supports conservative or traditional political ideas

is more extreme and actively opposes progressive change and reform
reactionary
vsextreme right-winger
8 8.6

A person who wants society to go back to how it was and opposes change

is focused on opposing progress more than moderate resistance
rightist
vsextreme right-winger
4 7.2

A person who supports conservative political ideas

is a stronger opponent of progress and liberal ideas than this label
ultraconservative
vsextreme right-winger
1 8.5

A person who strongly supports traditional beliefs and opposes social change

is even more opposed to progress and liberal ideas
archconservative
vsextreme right-winger
1 9.2

A person with very traditional political views who strongly opposes change

is more intensely against progress and liberal ideas
anti-liberal
vsextreme right-winger
7.8

A person who does not support liberal political ideas or policies

combines that opposition with stronger broader resistance to progress
conservativist
vsextreme right-winger
8.5

A person who does not like change and new ideas

shows stronger opposition to progress and liberal policies than this term

Antonyms

85 4.6

A person with political views that are not extreme

How Extreme

extreme right-winger
1 8.4
hardliner
19 7.5
right-winger
30 5.4
conservative
306 4.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

extreme + right-winger

The phrase is compositionally built from 'extreme' (very) modifying 'right-winger' (a person who holds right-wing/conservative political views), so its overall meaning 'a person with very conservative views' is directly predictable from the parts. This modifier+noun pattern is a regular, cross-linguistically common construction, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

The phrase extreme right-winger comes from the image of a meeting room where people sat by their views: the most conservative sat on the far right or in the wing at the side, and those at the end were called extreme. So, an extreme right-winger is 'a person with very conservative views who strongly opposes new ideas'.