hardline

3 definitions • 5 examples

the fact of being very severe, for example in refusing to allow something or to give people what they want:

take a hard line The government wants to take a hard line against the strikers.

extreme and severe and not likely to change:

a hard-line manifesto

a hard-line politician

His hardline stance appears to have gained him greater popularity with the public.

unwilling to change an opinion or position:

a hard-line opponent of reform