extreme
of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average: extreme measures.
utmost or exceedingly great in degree:extreme joy.
farthest from the center or middle; outermost; endmost: the extreme limits of a town.
farthest, utmost, or very far in any direction: an object at the extreme point of vision.
exceeding the bounds of moderation: extreme fashions.
going to the utmost or very great lengths in action, habit, opinion, etc.: an extreme conservative.
last or final: extreme hopes.
Chiefly Sports. very dangerous or difficult: extreme skiing.
the utmost or highest degree, or a very high degree: cautious to an extreme.
one of two things as remote or different from each other as possible: the extremes of joy and grief.
the furthest or utmost length; an excessive length, beyond the ordinary or average: extremes in dress.
an extreme act, measure, condition, etc.: the extreme of poverty.
Mathematics.
the first or the last term, as of a proportion or series.
a relative maximum or relative minimum value of a function in a given region.
Logic. the subject or the predicate of the conclusion of a syllogism; either of two terms that are separated in the premises and brought together in the conclusion.
Archaic. the utmost point, or extremity, of something.
Origin of extreme
1synonym study For extreme
Other words for extreme
2 | greatest, highest; superlative |
3 | ultimate, last, uttermost, remotest |
6 | extravagant, immoderate, excessive, fanatical, uncompromising, unreasonable |
Opposites for extreme
Other words from extreme
- ex·treme·ness, noun
- o·ver·ex·treme, adjective
- qua·si-ex·treme, adjective
- su·per·ex·treme, adjective
- su·per·ex·treme·ly, adverb
- su·per·ex·treme·ness, noun
- un·ex·treme, adjective
Words Nearby extreme
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How to use extreme in a sentence
The co-founder also stressed that most of Public’s users find its service organically, implying that the startup’s marketing costs have not been extreme, nor its growth artificially boosted.
Robinhood’s pain is Public’s gain as VCs rush to give it more money | Mary Ann Azevedo | February 11, 2021 | TechCrunchThe Crosby-Malkin Penguins do have a history of extreme late-season surges.
Can The Pittsburgh Penguins Save Their Season? | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | February 11, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightIn extreme cases, you can end up with a single person shouldering the burden of many hands — very unfair.
‘Chronically understaffed’: Confessions of an agency exec on the cost of online advertising’s Covid growth | Seb Joseph | February 11, 2021 | DigidayI think that the problem is that in some cases, not in those extreme cases, there’s speech that one person might say is legitimate and should be up, but others say it should be taken down.
Twenty-Six Words Created the Internet. What Will It Take to Save It? | Stephen Engelberg | February 9, 2021 | ProPublicaMars is substantially more complicated, with an atmosphere that distributes heat and makes the temperature extremes far more moderate, plus orbital wobbles that ensure seasonal changes in temperature.
Mapping the ice on Mars that could support future missions | John Timmer | February 9, 2021 | Ars Technica
Investigators will focus on whether the sudden emergency was so extreme that no degree of pilot skill would have helped.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? | Clive Irving | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was part of an extreme, racialized white faction in the Louisiana state house that was clearly dead-set against honoring King.
Steve Scalise and the Right’s Ridiculous Racial Blame Game | Michael Tomasky | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the most extreme cases, it allows for the extrajudicial killing of black people without consequence.
What Would Happen if I Got in White Cop’s Face? | Goldie Taylor | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNor should we ever assume that weather alone, however extreme, should be fatal to a commercial flight.
No one likes it when their sandcastle is knocked over, but his reaction is a bit, err, extreme.
Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
Expressive Voice Culture | Jessie Eldridge SouthwickThe controlling center of consciousness is the extreme limit of the nares anteri.
Expressive Voice Culture | Jessie Eldridge SouthwickAs a rule, however, even in the case of extreme varieties, a careful examination of the specimen will enable it to be identified.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard BastinNothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story.
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan SwiftIt stands at one extreme of our currency, with a dollar of gold set aside behind each dollar of paper.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur Phillips
British Dictionary definitions for extreme
/ (ɪkˈstriːm) /
being of a high or of the highest degree or intensity: extreme cold; extreme difficulty
exceeding what is usual or reasonable; immoderate: extreme behaviour
very strict, rigid, or severe; drastic: an extreme measure
(prenominal) farthest or outermost in direction: the extreme boundary
meteorol of, relating to, or characteristic of a continental climate
the highest or furthest degree (often in the phrases in the extreme, go to extremes)
(often plural) either of the two limits or ends of a scale or range of possibilities: extremes of temperature
maths
the first or last term of a series or a proportion
a maximum or minimum value of a function
logic the subject or predicate of the conclusion of a syllogism
Origin of extreme
1Derived forms of extreme
- extremeness, noun
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Scientific definitions for extreme
[ ĭk-strēm′ ]
Either the first or fourth term of a proportion of four terms. In the proportion 23 = 46, the extremes are 2 and 6. Compare mean.
A maximum or minimum value of a function.
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