'Extreme' definitions:
Definition of 'extreme'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: extreme, utmost(a), uttermost(a)]
adjective
Far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree; "an extreme example"; "extreme temperatures"; "extreme danger"
adjective
Beyond a norm in views or actions; "an extreme conservative"; "an extreme liberal"; "extreme views on integration"; "extreme opinions"
adjective
Most distant in any direction; "the extreme edge of town"
noun
The furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"
noun
The point located farthest from the middle of something [syn: extreme point, extreme, extremum]
Definition of 'Extreme'
From: GCIDE
- Extreme \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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. [1913 Webster]
- The Puritans or extreme Protestants. --Gladstone. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Mus.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Extreme'
From: GCIDE
- Extreme \Ex*treme"\, n.
- 1. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. "Resolute in most extremes." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Logic) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Math.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series. [1913 Webster]
- In the extreme as much as possible. "The position of the Port was difficult in the extreme." --J. P. Peters. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'extreme'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- bigoted,
- bitter end,
- bizarre,
- blowing up,
- bordering,
- borderline,
- bottom dollar,
- boundary,
- bounding,
- boundless,
- boundlessness,
- bounds,
- breakaway,
- burlesque,
- butt,
- butt end,
- caricature,
- caudal,
- ceiling,
- climax,
- coastal,
- conclusive,
- conservative,
- constrictive,
- consummation,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- crest,
- crown,
- culmination,
- cutting,
- deep,
- definitive,
- depth,
- desperate,
- determinant,
- determinative,
- determining,
- different,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- disproportionate,
- distant,
- dizzy,
- Draconian,
- drastic,
- eccentric,
- egregious,
- egregiousness,
- end,
- endmost,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- enormous,
- enormousness,
- eventual,
- exaggerated,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- exceedingly,
- exceptional,
- exceptionally,
- excess,
- excessive,
- excessiveness,
- excruciating,
- exorbitance,
- exorbitancy,
- exorbitant,
- exotic,
- expansion,
- exquisite,
- extraordinarily,
- extraordinary,
- extravagance,
- extravagancy,
- extravagant,
- extremely,
- extremes,
- extremism,
- extremist,
- 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,
- high-flown,
- highest degree,
- 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,
- ultra-ultra,
- ultraconservative,
- ultraist,
- ultraistic,
- 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