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EXTREME RIGHT-WINGER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism

Synonyms:

extreme right-winger; reactionary; ultraconservative

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Nouns denoting people

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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