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Extreme

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What's The Definition Of Extreme?
[n] the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"
[n] the point located farthest from the middle of something [adj] most distant in any direction; "the extreme edge of town" [adj] of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; "extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure"; "utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the uttermost distress" [adj] far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree; "an extreme example"; "extreme temperatures"; "extreme danger" [adj] beyond a norm in views or actions; "an extreme conservative"; "an extreme liberal"; "extreme views on integration"; "extreme opinions" Synonyms | Synonyms for Extreme: distant | extreme point | extremum | immoderate | intense | utmost(a) | uttermost(a) Related Terms | Find terms related to Extreme: a bit much | abandon | abandoned | abnormal | acme | acute | aggrandized | aggrandizement | all | amplification | amplified | anarchistic | anarcho-syndicalist | apex | apogee | at the height | ballyhoo | ballyhooed | bibulous | big talk | 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extremistic | extremity | fabulous | fabulousness | factious | fag end | fanatic | fancy | far out | far-off | farthermost | farthest | farthest bound | farthest off | fierce | final | fringing | frontier | furious | furthermost | furthest | giantism | gigantic | gigantism | gluttonous | gluttony | go to extremes | grandiloquence | grandiloquent | great | greatest | haggard | harsh | height | heightening | hidebound | high | highest degree | high-flown | huckstering | hyperbole | hyperbolic | hyperbolism | hypertrophied | hypertrophy | immoderacy | immoderate | immoderateness | immoderation | in the extreme | incontinence | incontinent | indulgent | inflated | inflation | inordinacy | inordinance | inordinate | inordinateness | insurgent | insurrectionary | intemperance | intemperate | intemperateness | intense | intolerable | irrational | jumping-off place | keen | kooky | last | limbic | liminal | limit | limiting | limits | littoral | magnification | magnified | marginal | maximum | mildly radical | monstrous | monstrousness | most | most distant | moving | mutineering | mutinous | nadir | ne plus ultra | nib | nihilistic | nimiety | notable | noteworthy | nth degree | offbeat | out of bounds | out of sight | outermost | outmost | outrageous | outrageousness | outre | outstanding | overbig | overdeveloped | overdevelopment | overdone | overdrawn | overemphasis | overemphasized | overemphatic | overenthusiastic | overestimated | overestimation | overgreat | overgreatness | overgrown | overgrowth | overindulgence | overindulgent | overindulging | overkill | overlarge | overlargeness | overmuch | overmuchness | overpraised | overreligious | oversold | overstated | overstatement | overstressed | overweening | overwrought | overzealous | peak | perfervid | piercing | pink | pinnacle | poignant | point | polar | pole | prodigal | prodigality | profuse | profuseness | puffed | puffery | puffing up | queer | rabid | radical | radicalism | rebel | rebellious | red | remarkable | remotest | restrictive | revolutional | revolutionary | revolutionist | rigid | rigorous | rimming | riotous | rough | seditionary | seditious | self-indulgent | sensationalism | severe | sharp | skirting | splitting | steep | stern | stiff | stretched | stretching | strict | stringent | stub | stump | subversive | summit | superlative | swing | swinish | syndicalist | tag | tag end | tail | tail end | tall talk | terminal | terminating | terminative | the whole | threshold | Thule | tip | too much | too-muchness | top | tough | touted | touting | towering | traitorous | travesty | treasonable | turbulent | Ultima Thule | ultimate | ultra | ultraconservative | ultraist | ultraistic | ultra-ultra | ultrazealous | unbridled | uncommon | uncompromising | unconscionable | unconscionableness | unconstrained | uncontrolled | unconventional | undisciplined | undue | undueness | unfrugal | unlimited | unmeasurable | unmeasured | unreasonable | unreasonableness | unrestrained | unrestrainedness | unthrifty | unusual | unusually | unwarranted | utmost | utmost extent | uttermost | vehement | venomous | very | violent | virulent | vivid | way out | weird | wild | wild-eyed | wild-looking | worst | zealotic | zenith See Also | acme | apex | degree | extremity | grade | level | peak | vertex Extreme In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*treme"\, a. [L. extremus, superl. of exter, extrus,
on the outside, outward: cf. F. extr[^e]me. See {Exterior}.]
1. At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost;
farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.
2. Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme
hour of life.
3. The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest;
immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case;
extreme folly. ``The extremest remedy.'' --Dryden.
``Extreme rapidity.'' --Sir W. Scott.
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire. --Shak.
4. Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.
The Puritans or extreme Protestants. --Gladstone.
5. (Mus.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said
of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat
forth.
{Extreme and mean ratio} (Geom.), the relation of a line and
its segments when the line is so divided that the whole is
to the greater segment is to the less.
{Extreme distance}. (Paint.) See {Distance}., n., 6.
{Extreme unction}. See under {Unction}.
Note: Although this adjective, being superlative in
signification, is not properly subject to comparison,
the superlative form not unfrequently occurs,
especially in the older writers. ``Tried in his
extremest state.'' --Spenser. ``Extremest hardships.''
--Sharp. ``Extremest of evils.'' --Bacon. ``Extremest
verge of the swift brook.'' --Shak. ``The sea's
extremest borders.'' --Addison.
\Ex*treme"\, n. 1. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity. 2. Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet. His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness. --Bancroft. 3. An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. ``Resolute in most extremes.'' --Shak. 4. (Logic) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them. 5. (Math.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series. {In the extreme} as much as possible. ``The position of the Port was difficult in the extreme.'' --J. P. Peters. |
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