Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who believes in the politics or policy of the political right. 2 (context in combination English) One who supports the rights of a specified group.
WordNet
adj. believing in or supporting tenets of the political right [syn: right-wing]
n. a member of a right wing political party [syn: right-winger]
Usage examples of "rightist".
In 1911 representatives-of all rightist currents in Civil Croatia, Dalmatia, Istria and Bosnia-Hercegovina united and held the First All-rightist Conference, as it was called.
He was labelled an old rightist whose motive was to corrupt the communist system and eventually overthrow it.
They discussed who the key minister in the ministry was and they decided on Lin Muhan, a well-known intellect in China and a labelled rightist who had been through some horrifying times during the Cultural Revolution.
The Southern California Rightist Coalition was not the kind of outfit that would let a moderate like Fowler anywhere near their campaign events, or their coffers.
Hmong neutralist over to the rightist side, and postponed at least one bombing sortie because the leg bones of the chickens he ate for dinner were inauspiciously positioned.
Since it was impossible for Croatia to gain full independence, some rightists saw a solution in close links with Vienna and, along with this, took a radical stance towards the Serbs in Croatia.
But still we read the editorial comments--the Cultural Revolutionary ideas and themes, pages upon pages of domestic news, unbelievable human achievement stories that denounced the old filthy ideas of the rightists and antirevolutionaries.
Like Zhang Shu, other experienced teachers who had previously been accused of being rightists were now rehabilitated and allowed to return.
When it attempted to enforce the law against terrorism, the Bavarian Rightists, of whom Hitler was now one of the acknowledged young leaders, organized a conspiracy to overthrow Lerchenfeld and march on Berlin to bring down the Republic.
These hatreds are not going to be healed, but only inflamed, by insulting those who feel them, and the abusive labels with which we plaster them--squares, fascists, rightists, know-nothings--may well become the proud badges and symbols around which they will rally and consolidate themselves.
There we sat down with the truculent parties to the truce: the two men who had led the Leftists and Rightists during the civil war and who each now aspired to head the prospective new Oblivian government.
In order of arrival, they wanted me to help exterminate all the Leftists, to help exterminate all the Rightists, to help exterminate all the pagan indigenous Indians, and to help exterminate all the johnny-come-lately Roman Catholic Spaniards.
She thinks you forget about atrocities unless the Rightists commit them.
The most reactionary rightists, the wildest leftists, with their theories of conspiracy by megalomaniac bankers, have made this man a target for any fanatic with a weapon, and his family is targeted along with him.
Siedelheim had been murdered by crackpot revolutionary elements who saw new economic ties between Germany and Liberia as a renewal of imperialist adventurism--or perhaps by rightists who opposed German participation in the recently chartered Common Market, of which the ECSC was a forerunner.