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Extreme   /ɛkstrˈim/   Listen
adjective
Extreme  adj.  
1.
At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.
2.
Last; final; conclusive; said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.
3.
The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly. "The extremest remedy." "Extreme rapidity." "Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire."
4.
Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. "The Puritans or extreme Protestants."
5.
(Mus.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.
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. 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." "Extremest hardships." "Extremest of evils." "Extremest verge of the swift brook." "The sea's extremest borders."


noun
Extreme  n.  
1.
The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.
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. "His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness."
3.
An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. "Resolute in most extremes."
4.
(Logic) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.
5.
(Math.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series.
In the extreme as much as possible. "The position of the Port was difficult in the extreme."





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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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