Dictionary

right-on en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (UK, derogatory, often) Possessing political and social views that are considered to be fashionable and left-wing.
   • "They [women who cohabitate] do not support the girls they live with and yet the girls do all the things a wife does for her husband, the cooking, the laundry, the housework, and sometimes she even supports him while he finishes school!" (To which one right-on middle-aged woman in the audience responded, "So we did the same thing only we had a piece of paper which made it legal!" 1974 April 13, Barbara Piccirilii, “Landerslander”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
   • Ukip said that it was saddened that "synthetic outrage" from the "right-on media" had forced Read to withdraw the single and announced that the full profits would be donated to the Red Cross Ebola Outreach programme. 2014 October 23, Laura Pitel, “Charity refuses money from Ukip calypso song”, in The Times, number 71335, page 2:
   • Sid was greying, and small and very right-on when it came to the left. To Mr Grumble, Sid looked like another BTC, graduate tree-hugger, the type that hitchhiked around Tajikistan, or worked in the local library, or charity shop; the sort who would bother him in the street to complete some marketing survey. 2014, Andrew-Henry Bowie, The Death of Mr. Grumble, →ISBN:
   • The most telling thing about them is that both portray what they see as right-wing as 'the other', and so as less revolutionary and less right-on. 2002, Liz Stanley, Sue Wise, Breaking Out Again: Feminist Ontology and Epistemology, →ISBN, page 51:

Forms

Antonyms

politically incorrect

Deriveds

right-onness

Synonyms

woke · politically correct · PC