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Adjective
/ikˈstrēm/,
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Reaching a high or the highest degree; very great,
  1. Reaching a high or the highest degree; very great
    • - extreme cold
  2. Not usual; exceptional
    • - in extreme cases the soldier may be discharged
  3. Very severe or serious
    • - expulsion is an extreme sanction
  4. (of a person or their opinions) Advocating severe or drastic measures; far from moderate, esp. politically
    • - the party has expelled some of its more extreme members
  5. Denoting or relating to a sport performed in a hazardous environment and involving great physical risk, such as parachuting or white-water rafting

  6. Furthest from the center or a given point; outermost
    • - the extreme northwest of Scotland
Noun
  1. Either of two abstract things that are as different from each other as possible
    • - unbridled talk at one extreme and total silence at the other
  2. The highest or most extreme degree of something
    • - extremes of temperature
  3. A very severe or serious act
    • - he was unwilling to go to the extreme of civil war
  4. The subject or predicate in a proposition, or the major or minor term in a syllogism (as contrasted with the middle term)

  1. 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"
  2. the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"
  3. extreme point: the point located farthest from the middle of something
  4. most distant in any direction; "the extreme edge of town"
  5. (extremely) highly: to a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect; "highly successful"; "He spoke highly of her"; "does not think highly of his writing"; "extremely interesting"
  6. Extreme is the first studio album of Boston funk-metal band Extreme, released on March 14, 1989. Despite being released on a major label, the album did not sell very well and produced two singles: "Kid Ego" and the radio-only "Play With Me". ...
  7. Extreme is an American rock band, headed by frontmen Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt, that reached the height of their popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  8. The Extreme series on Travel Channel features "the absolute best of what the US of A has to offer—to the total EXTREME". Produced by Sharp Entertainment, they travel around the United States to document and showcase various places, events, things and people that are extreme in some way.
  9. Extreme was an action adventure series starring James Brolin that had its debut on ABC after Super Bowl XXIX.
  10. The Extreme is the twenty-fifth book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is known to have been ghostwritten by Jeffrey Zeuhlke. It is narrated by Marco.
  11. Going to Extremes and Surviving Extremes are television programmes made for Channel 4 by Nick Middleton. In each episode of the two series, Middleton visits an extreme area of the world to find out how people have adapted to life there.
  12. The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition; Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale; A drastic expedient; Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6; Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost; Excessive, or far beyond the norm; ...
  13. ((extremely)) (amazing, delighted, sorry, horrendous) vraiment;
  14. (extremely) unco, sair, terrible
  15. (Extremes) a and d in the proportion
  16. (Extremes) On earth, temperatures usually range between ±40 °C. However, the wide range of climates and latitudes offer extremes of temperature well outside this range. The coldest air temperature ever recorded on Earth is -89.2 °C (-127.8 °F), at Vostok Station, Antarctica on 21 July 1983. ...
  17. (The Extremes) This sketch is about The Extreme Family. They are a family of three who always take every emotion to an "extreme". Whatever they feel, they seem to always overreact to it. ...
  18. (extremes) outer terms. (plural)
  19. (extremes) the two e. and the middle path; s. majjhima-paṭipadā.
  20. Oxford Dictionary – farthest from the centre; situated at either end; at the utmost point, edge or border; most remote. Last; conclusive.  Greatest, highest, strongest, or the like. Immoderate; violent.
  21. means the maximum or minimum value of an intensive variable, such as the highest temperature during the day.
  22. The highest or lowest price during any time period, a price extreme.
  23. Ski conditions or tactics that put your life in danger.
  24. Seems to have hundreds of definitions in wrestling, the most common ones being the Jeff Hardy style of being extreme (i.e. jumping off things) and the ECW style of being extreme (i.e. hitting each other with things).
  25. The - an alternate version of If You Must, one of the Bleach demos.