Extreme
[ɪk'striːm;ek-] or [ɪk'strim]
Definition
(noun.) the furthest or highest degree of something; 'he carried it to extremes'.
(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' .
Typist: Ruben--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.
(a.) Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.
(a.) The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.
(a.) Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.
(a.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.
(n.) The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.
(n.) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.
(n.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series.
Editor: Rodney
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Outermost, utmost, farthest, uttermost, most distant, most remote.[2]. Greatest, highest, of the highest degree, of the rarest kind.[3]. Last, final, ultimate.
n. End, extremity.
Typed by Ernestine
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Terminal, final, remote, utmost, farthest, {[ln*t]?}, extravagant, immoderate,most_violent, distant, ultimate
ANT:Initial, primal, moderate, judicious
Editor: Nita
Definition
adj. outermost: most remote: last: highest in degree: greatest: excessive: most violent: most urgent: stringent.—n. the utmost point or verge: end: utmost or highest limit or degree: great necessity.—adv. Extrēme′ly.—ns. Extrē′mism; Extrē′mist.—adj. Extrem′ital.—n. Extrem′ity the utmost limit: the highest degree: greatest necessity or distress: (pl.) the hands and feet.—Extreme unction (see Unction).—Go to extremes to go too far: to use extreme measures.—In extremis (L.) at the point of death; In the extreme in the last highest degree: extremely; The last extremity the utmost pitch of misfortune: death.
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Examples
- It was generally believed that there would be a flurry; that some of the extreme Southern States would go so far as to pass ordinances of secession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That natural selection generally act with extreme slowness I fully admit. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In the most extreme agitation I hurried after the surgeon and brought him with me in my carriage. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- On the extreme right, however, his reserve brigade carried the enemy's works twice, and was twice driven therefrom by infantry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Carr's division was deployed on our right, Lawler's brigade forming his extreme right and reaching through these woods to the river above. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Next to McClernand came Prentiss with a raw division, and on the extreme left, Stuart with one brigade of Sherman's division. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Of course, my fair readers would not have me guilty of such extreme ill-breeding as to differ in opinion from a noble duke! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The voice of the submissive man who had spoken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The shoes remain in these vulcanizers from six to seven hours, subjected to extreme heat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A land of money-worship, a land of noisy steam-engines, a land of poverty and wealth—extremes in both cases. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- In the summer the water cools the region; in the winter, on the contrary, the water heats the region, and hence extremes of temperature are practically unknown. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In seeking this measure, we have to avoid two extremes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Nature has proceeded with caution in this came, and seems to have carefully avoided the inconveniences of two extremes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- From these two extremes, therefore, the game began to work toward the great middle classes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Meantime Edison had secured his pass over the Grand Trunk Railroad, and spent four days and nights on the journey, suffering extremes of cold and hunger. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There stood the two children representatives of the two extremes of society. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And was not Dorset, to whom his glance had passed by a natural transition, too jerkily wavering between the same extremes? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He is always in extremes, perpetually in the superlative degree. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Thesiger never goes into extremes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I listened to this discourse with the extremest agony. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I motioned to him to take up the letter, while I walked up and down the room in the extremest agitation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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