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Definition of Extreme

Extreme At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit. Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life. The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly. Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity. 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. An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them. The first or the last term of a proportion or series. Related Definitions: An, And, Any, As, At, Being, Best, Between, Body, Border, Calamity, Case, Cold, Conclusive, Condition, Contracted, Danger, Degree, Departure, Different, Distance, Distress, Each, Edge, Either, Excessive, Extended, Extreme, Extremity, Farthest, Final, First, Flat, Folly, Forth, From, Furthest, Heat, Hence, Hour, Immoderate, In, Interposed, Is, Last, Life, Limit, Mean, Meet, Middle, Most, Much, Of, Often, Or, Other, Outermost, Part, Plural, Point, Possible, Proportion, Radical, Remote, Said, Second, Series, Sharp, State, Supposable, Syllogism, Term, That, The, Them, Time, Tolerable, Ultra, Undue, Urgent, Utmost, Verge, Vice, Violent, Virtue, Which, Widely, Worst

Extreme Quotations Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content. Michael T. Thomas Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. Friedrich Nietzsche So when I'm working out I do things extreme. Taylor Dayne Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. George Bernard Shaw Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. Bertrand Russell

Extreme Translations extreme in Afrikaans is ekstreem extreme in Dutch is uiterst, extreem, ergst, bovenmatig extreme in Latin is extremus extreme in Norwegian is drastisk, ekstreme, ytterlighet, ekstrem, ytterst extreme in Portuguese is extremo extreme in Spanish is extremo extreme in Swedish is ytterlighet, ytterlig

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