extreme

Meanings

Plural: extremes

Noun

• the furthest or highest degree of something
  • "he carried it to extremes"
• the point located farthest from the middle of something
• The greatest or utmost point, degree, or condition.
• Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.
• One of the last moments of life.
• A drastic expedient.
• Hardships, straits.
• Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6.

Adjective Satellite

• of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity
  • "extreme cold"
  • "extreme caution"
  • "extreme pleasure"
• far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree
  • "an extreme example"
  • "extreme temperatures"
  • "extreme danger"
• beyond a norm in views or actions
  • "an extreme conservative"
  • "an extreme liberal"
  • "extreme views on integration"
  • "extreme opinions"
• most distant in any direction
  • "the extreme edge of town"

Adj

• Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.
• In the greatest or highest degree; intense.
• Excessive, or far beyond the norm.
• Drastic, or of great severity.
• Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.
• Ultimate, final or last.

Adv

• Extremely.

Synonyms

conclusive, dangerous, decisive, definitive, drastic, dreadful, endly, endsome, excessive, extravagant, extreme, extreme point, extremum, farthest, final, furthest, greatest, highest, hindermost, hindmost, immoderate, intemperate, last, lavish, most distant, nimious, obscene, outermost, overmuch, overweening, pole, prodigal, remotest, severe, terminal, ultimate, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, utmost, uttermost, wanton

Antonyms

closest, least, moderate, nearest, reasonable

Related Words

extremum, mean

Anagrams of extreme