Extreme

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1. Adjective

At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

2. Adjective

Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.

3. Adjective

The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.

4. Adjective

Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.

5. Adjective

Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.

6. Noun

The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.

7. Noun

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.

8. Noun

An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.

9. Noun

Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.

10. Noun

The first or the last term of a proportion or series.

11. Adjective

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"
Vocabulary classified under Emotion and tone

12. Noun

the point located farthest from the middle of something
Vocabulary classified under Geography
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