Extreme in opinion (esp. religious or political); carrying an opinion or doctrine to an extreme. Cf. high Tory, n. adj.

Of persons or parties: Holding extreme views in politics or other matters of opinion.

Strict, rigorous, uncompromising. Politics. Designating an extreme, dogmatic, or hardline faction within a political party or the political…

Originally U.S. Unmixed, undiluted; of spirits, ‘neat’. Also qualifying a designation of a political party: Strict, rigid, extreme. to vote the strai…

Holding extreme opinions.

of or pertaining to extremists or extremism.

Politics. Of (the members of) a political faction or tendency: unacceptably radical; extremist, fanatical. Esp. as loony left and derivs. Cf. hard…