rightward

rightward

English

Etymology

    From right + -ward.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    rightward (comparative more rightward, superlative most rightward)

    1. To or from the right.
      • 2012, Catherine M. Otto, The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography, →ISBN, page 191:
        This is seen as abnormal rapid leftward motion of the septum during preejection followed by rightward (paradoxical) motion.
      • 2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN[1]:
        Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”

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    Adverb

    rightward (comparative more rightward, superlative most rightward)

    1. To or from the right.
      • 2021 September 2, Roger Cohen, “The French Left Is in Disarray, but Here Comes Anne Hidalgo”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 1 December 2021:
        Most polls give the left, divided between Socialists, ecologists and far-left parties, less than 30 percent of the vote in a France drifting rightward. The once-proud “gauche” is in tatters.

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