Extreme

Ex`treme´

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.

Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire.

- Shak.

Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.

The Puritans or extreme Protestants.

- Gladstone.

(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.

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.

His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness.

- Bancroft.

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

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

(Math.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series.

In the extreme
as much as possible. - J. P. Peters.

Noun	1.	extreme - the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"
	2.	extreme - the point located farthest from the middle of something Synonyms: extreme point, extremum
Adj.	1.	extreme - 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" Synonyms: utmost, uttermost
	2.	extreme - far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree; "an extreme example"; "extreme temperatures"; "extreme danger"
	3.	extreme - beyond a norm in views or actions; "an extreme conservative"; "an extreme liberal"; "extreme views on integration"; "extreme opinions"
	4.	extreme - most distant in any direction; "the extreme edge of town"

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