ultra (a.) Going beyond others, or beyond due limit; extreme;
fanatical; uncompromising; as, an ultra reformer; ultra measures.
ultra (n.) One who advocates extreme measures; an ultraist; an
extremist; a radical.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary📕
ultra ul′tra, adj. going beyond, extreme—in
composition, as in Ultra-classical, Ultra-fashionable,
Ultra-conservative, Ultra-critical, &c.—n.
an ultraist: a fanatic.—ns.Ul′traism, the principles of ultraists;
Ul′traist, one who carries to
extremes the opinions or principles of his party.—Ultra vī′res, beyond one's power or rights.
[L. ultra, beyond, vires, pl. of vis, strength.]
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