EXTREME
\ɛkstɹˈiːm], \ɛkstɹˈiːm], \ɛ_k_s_t_ɹ_ˈiː_m]\
Definitions of EXTREME
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"
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most distant in any direction; "the extreme edge of town"
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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"
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far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree; "an extreme example"; "extreme temperatures"; "extreme danger"
By Princeton University
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the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"
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most distant in any direction; "the extreme edge of town"
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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"
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far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree; "an extreme example"; "extreme temperatures"; "extreme danger"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Extremely.
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At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.
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The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.
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Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.
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The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.
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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.
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An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.
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Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.
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The first or the last term of a proportion or series.
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Last; final; conclusive; - said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.
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Extended or contracted as much as possible; - said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.
By Oddity Software
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Extremely.
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At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.
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The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.
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Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.
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The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.
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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.
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An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.
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Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.
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The first or the last term of a proportion or series.
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Last; final; conclusive; - said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.
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Extended or contracted as much as possible; - said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.
By Noah Webster.
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Extremely.
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Of the highest degree; last; utmost; furthest; final; most severe or strict.
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The utmost degree of anything; extremity; excess; end.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Outermost; utmost; furthest; at the utmost point, edge, or border; as, the extreme verge or point of a thing; "The extremest shore."-Southey; worst or best that can exist or be supposed; greatest; most violent or urgent; utmost; as, extreme pain, grief or suffering; extreme joy or pleasure; an extreme case; last; beyond which there is none; as, the extreme hour of life; carrying principles to the uttermost; holding the strongest possible views; ultra; "The Puritans or extreme Protestants."-Gladstone; in music, superfiuous or augmented; thus, the extreme sharp sixth is the augmented sixth.
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The utmost point or verge of a thing; that part which terminates a body; extremity; "Between the extremes of both promontorise."-Dampier; utmost point; utmost limit or degree that can be supposed or tolerated; either of two states or feelings as different from furthest degree; as, the extremes of heat and cold; the extremes of virtue an vice; avoid extremes; extreme suffering, misery, or distress; extremity; "Tending to some relief of our extremes."-Milton: in logic, either of extreme terms of a syllogism, that is, the predicate and subject-thus, "Man is an animal; Peter is a man, therefore Peter is an animal; " the word animal is the greater extreme, Peter the less extreme, and man the medium; in math. either of the first and last terms of a proportion; as, when three magnitudes are proportional the rectangle contained by the extremes is equal to the square of the mean.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Farthest; outermost; utmost; severe; excessive.
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The highest or utmost degree; farthest point or limit; extremity; first or last term of a proportion or series.
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Extremist.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Outermost; furthest off; most pressing; worst or best that can exist or be supposed; last; beyond which there is none; going extreme lengths.
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The utmost point or verge; end; furthest degree; extremity; the extreme terms of a syllogism, the predicate and subject of the conclusion, as distinct from the middle term with which they are compared in the premises; the first and last terms of a proportion Extreme unction, among the Rom. Catholics, the anointing of a sick person with oil when about to die, usually just before death.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Furthest; outermost; most violent; highest in degree; most pressing; rigorous; strict.
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That part which terminates; utmost point.
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What are furthest distant from each other.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.