lunatic fringe

1. 1.

   a political unit with extreme and fanatical views

   Broaderpolitical unit

Questions about lunatic fringe

What does lunatic fringe mean?

lunatic fringe means "a political unit with extreme and fanatical views".

Is lunatic fringe a common word?

lunatic fringe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.