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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
extreme \extreme"\, a. l. extremus, superl. of exter, extrus,
   on the outside, outward: cf. f. extr^eme. 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
see also:
exterior extreme and mean ratio extreme distance distance extreme unction unction 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
extreme \extreme"\, 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
see also:
in the extreme 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
extreme
     adj 1: 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: utmosta, uttermosta
     2: far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an
        utmost degree; "an extreme example"; "extreme
        temperatures"; "extreme danger"
     3: beyond a norm in views or actions; "an extreme
        conservative"; "an extreme liberal"; "extreme views on
        integration"; "extreme opinions"
     4: most distant in any direction; "the extreme edge of town"
     n 1: the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it
          to extremes"
     2: the point located farthest from the middle of something
        syn: extreme point, extremum
see also:
utmosta uttermosta extreme point extremum 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
367 moby thesaurus words for "extreme":
   draconian, thule, ultima thule, 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, 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, tip, too much, too-muchness,
   top, tough, touted, touting, towering, traitorous, travesty,
   treasonable, turbulent, 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





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