left-winger

Speech parts

1. left-winger - Noun

2. left-winger - Adjective

Meaning

a person who belongs to the political left

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

leftist lefty collectivist communist Marxist left red liberal radical revolutionary progressive socialist liberalism reformer extremist
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Antonyms

right-winger republican tory praetorian bourbon bluenose
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Hypernyms

socialist

Hyponyms

pink pinko

Related terms

left wing

Derivatives

left-winger

Examples

[Recalling Bill Clinton, a Yale University classmate:] I remember him as very gregarious, never in class, always talking to someone out in the hallway or in the dining room or something like that. I remember her (Hillary Rodham Clinton) as very rigid, unfriendly, hard-core left-winger. John R. Bolton

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger. Helen Mirren

Ten seconds after that Kane was popping up in an inverted left-winger role, firing a cross-shot against the lunge of Jason Denayer. Source: Internet

That made the victory of a true left-winger like Sanders or Sen. Elizabeth Warren at least plausible. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

left-wing or right-wing left-wing party left-wing populism left-wingy leftard leftback