neo-conadj.n.
/ˌniːə(ʊ)ˈkɒn/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈkɑn/ North American (chiefly U.S.).
A. adj.
= neoconservative adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > right
illiberal1649
white?1740
right1794
conservative1802
centre-right1822
agricolous1825
hunkerish1857
right wing1857
rightward1887
rightist1894
rightwards1931
right-of-centre1937
establishmentarian1962
righty1970
neo-con1979
New Rightist1981
1979 Washington Post 20 Feb. b4/2 The neocon movement has roots in the 18th-century concept of Edmund Burke.
1985 Village Voice (N.Y.) 8 Jan. 10/2 Is this born-again font yet another sign of encroaching neocon hegemony?
1988 N.Y. Times 18 Aug. a27/5 The neo-con intellectuals are privately dismayed at the choice of ‘a Kemp without Kemp's baggage’.
2001 Nation 2 July 6/1 Abrams, a Democrat turned Republican who married into the cranky Podhoretz neocon clan, billed himself as a ‘gladiator’ for the Reagan Doctrine in Central America.
B. n.
= neoconservative n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the right > adherent of
praetorian1647
illiberal1818
rightist1894
right-winger1920
fascist1921
righty1961
establishmentarian1962
New Rightist1977
neo-con1979
1979 Maclean's 13 Aug. 50/3 This tends to make neocons very keen on liberty in the economic sense and a little less sensitive to it in manners and mores.
1985 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Aug. 8/2 Suddenly most right-wingers started calling themselves rightists or neo-cons, short for neo-conservatives.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1979