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Definition of Extreme

1. Adjective. Of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity. "In the uttermost distress"

2. Noun. The furthest or highest degree of something. "He carried it to extremes"

3. Adjective. Far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree. "Extreme danger"

4. Noun. The point located farthest from the middle of something.

5. Adjective. Beyond a norm in views or actions. "Extreme opinions"

6. Adjective. Most distant in any direction. "The extreme edge of town"

Definition of Extreme

1. a. At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

2. n. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.

Definition of Extreme

1. Adjective. Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost. ¹

2. Adjective. In the greatest or highest degree; intense. ¹

3. Adjective. Excessive, or far beyond the norm. ¹

4. Adjective. Drastic, or of great severity. ¹

5. Adjective. Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment. ¹

6. Adjective. (archaic) Ultimate, final or last. ¹

7. Noun. The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition ¹

8. Noun. Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale. ¹

9. Noun. A drastic expedient. ¹

10. Noun. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as ''1'' and ''6'' in ''1:2=3:6''. ¹

11. Adverb. (archaic) Extremely. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Extreme

1. existing in a very high degree [adj -TREMER, -TREMEST] / the highest degree [n -S]

Medical Definition of Extreme

1. As far away as possible from the centre, the beginning or the average, of the highest degree or intensity This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extreme

extravertive extraverts extravisual extravital ultraviolet extravolution extream extreamest extreamly extreat extreats

extrema extremal extremality extremally extremals extreme capsule extreme halophile extreme ironing extreme point extreme prejudice

extreme programmer extreme programmers extreme programming extreme right-winger extreme sport extreme sports extreme unction extremely extremely high frequency

Literary usage of Extreme

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report by Great Britain (1850)
"There have at all times been a certain class of periodicals of a extreme low grade ... But the new feature in the present agitation is of^ii'10" its extreme ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"''Note on the Effect of extreme Cold on the Emanations of Radium. ... As it seemed advisable to examine the action of extreme cold on the action of radium, ..."

3. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1889)
"... same species—Species with habits widely different from those of their allies—Organs of extreme perfection—Modes of transition—Cases of difficulty—Natura ..."

4. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1839)
"I observed that the equality of conditions is daily advancing towards those extreme limits which it seems to have reached in the United States; ..."

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