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Extreme   /ɛkstrˈim/   Listen
Extreme

adjective
1.
Of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity.  Synonyms: utmost, uttermost.  "Extreme caution" , "Extreme pleasure" , "Utmost contempt" , "To the utmost degree" , "In the uttermost distress"
2.
Far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree.  "Extreme temperatures" , "Extreme danger"
3.
Beyond a norm in views or actions.  "An extreme liberal" , "Extreme views on integration" , "Extreme opinions"
4.
Most distant in any direction.
noun
1.
The furthest or highest degree of something.
2.
The point located farthest from the middle of something.  Synonyms: extreme point, extremum.



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"Extreme" Quotes from Famous Books



... ain't real. They go to that extreme. Not even empty space is real. And the human mind can't comprehend infinite space. I got kind of hot when one of 'em said that. I asked 'em right off whether the human mind could comprehend space that had an end to it. Of ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson
... cautious in fancying that we detect a foreign origin for the Mahayana. Different as it may be from the Buddhism of the Pali Canon, it is an Indian not an exotic growth. Deification, pantheism, the creation of radiant or terrible deities, extreme forms of idealism or nihilism in metaphysics are tendencies manifested in Hinduism as clearly as in Buddhism. Even the doctrine of the Buddha's three bodies, which sounds like an imitation of the Christian Trinity, has ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Charles Eliot
... discourses about that distemper, which happened frequently enough amongst his master's journeymen. There he heard some of the foolish fellows say that lying with any person who was sound would cure those who were in such a condition. The extreme anguish of body he was in excited him to try the experiment, and he injured no less than four or five children, between four years old and six, before he committed that act ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward
... the Military Governor of Paris. Large crowds had assembled in the streets on the way to the Embassy, and we were received with tremendous greetings by the people. Their welcome was cordial in the extreme. The day is particularly memorable to me, because my previous acquaintance with Lord Bertie ripened from that time into an intimate friendship to which I attach the greatest value. I trust that, when the ...
— 1914 • John French, Viscount of Ypres
... contrary to which we call nonsense; and there is a superfluous crowding in of insignificant words, more than are needful to express the thing intended, and this is impertinence; and that again, carried to an extreme, is ridiculous. ...
— An Essay Upon Projects • Daniel Defoe


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