Left-wing Synonyms

Open-minded or progressive
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. not conservative
  2. reform
  3. progressivistic
Believing in or supporting tenets of the political left
Synonyms:
  1. leftist
  2. left
  3. left-winger
  4. leftism
  5. liberal
  6. liberalism
  7. progressiveness
  8. progressivism
  9. radical
  10. on the left
  11. progressive
  12. left-of-center
Those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. left

Words Related to Left-wing

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. rightwing
  2. right-wing
  3. pro-war
  4. eurosceptic
  5. rightist
  6. centrist
  7. left-of-centre
  8. reformist
  9. trotskyite
  10. pro-soviet
  11. europhile
  12. euro-sceptic
  13. leftwing
  14. right-winger
  15. reactionary

Left-wing Sentence Examples

  • Corps were streaming up through the woods against the French left wing.

  • Their left wing drove the English back, but Lord Dacre's reserve corps restored the fight on this side.

  • The cavalry of his left wing stood fast, west of Doon Hill, as a pivot of manoeuvre, the northern face of Doon (where the ground rises from the burn at an average slope of fifteen degrees and is even steeper near the summit) he left unoccupied.

  • Before long, while the hostile left wing still remained inactive, the unfortunate troops of the French centre and right were gradually hemmed in by the whole force of the Allies.

  • A few scattered units managed to escape, and the left wing retreated unmolested, but at the cost of about 3000 casualties the Allies inflicted a loss of 6000 killed and wounded and 9000 prisoners on the enemy, who were, moreover, so shaken that they never recovered their confidence to the end of the campaign.

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