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English Dictionary: extreme	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
extreme adj 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" Synonym(s): extreme, utmost(a), uttermost(a) 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" n the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes" the point located farthest from the middle of something Synonym(s): extreme point, extreme, extremum
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Extreme \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. --Bancroft. 3. An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. [bd]Resolute in most extremes.[b8] --Shak. 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. [bd]The position of the Port was difficult in the extreme.[b8] --J. P. Peters.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Extreme \Extreme"\, a. [L. extremus, superl. of exter, extrus, on the outside, outward: cf. F. extr[88]me. See {Exterior}.] 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. [bd]The extremest remedy.[b8] --Dryden. [bd]Extreme rapidity.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire. --Shak. 4. Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. The Puritans or extreme Protestants. --Gladstone. 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. [bd]Tried in his extremest state.[b8] --Spenser. [bd]Extremest hardships.[b8] --Sharp. [bd]Extremest of evils.[b8] --Bacon. [bd]Extremest verge of the swift brook.[b8] --Shak. [bd]The sea's extremest borders.[b8] --Addison.