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extreme

adj
/ɪkˈstɹiːm/UK/ɪkˈstɹim/US

Etymology

Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French extreme, from Latin extrēmus, the superlative of exter.

  1. derived from extrēmus
  2. derived from extreme

Definitions

  1. Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.

    • At the extreme edges, the coating is very thin.

  2. In the greatest or highest degree

    In the greatest or highest degree; intense.

    • He has an extreme aversion to needles, and avoids visiting the doctor.

  3. Excessive, or far beyond the norm.

    • His extreme love of model trains showed in the rails that criscrossed his entire home.
    • An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. Drastic, or of great severity.

      • I think the new laws are extreme, but many believe them necessary for national security.

    2. Of sports, difficult or dangerous

      Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.

      • Television has begun to reflect the growing popularity of extreme sports such as bungee jumping and skateboarding.

    3. Ultimate, final or last.

      • the extreme hour of life

    4. The greatest or utmost point, degree, or condition.

    5. Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.

      • extremes of temperature

    6. One of the last moments of life.

    7. A drastic expedient.

      • Some people go to extremes for attention on social media.

    8. Hardships, straits.

      • a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts, With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits, Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are, And might, if my extreames had ful euents, Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.

    9. Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1

      Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6.

    10. Extremely.

      • In the empty and extreme cold theatre.

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Derived

antiextreme, extremal, extreme day trip, extreme energy, extremeless, extreme metal, extremeness, extreme point, extreme prejudice, extreme programmer, extreme programming, extreme ratio, extreme risk law, extreme risk protection order, extreme skiing, extreme sport, extreme ultraviolet, extreme value theorem, extremify, extremisation, extremization, extremize, extremogram, extremophile, extremophilia, extremotolerant, in the extreme, nonextreme, overextreme, superextreme, terminate with extreme prejudice, unextreme

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at extreme. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at extreme. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at extreme

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA