extreme

Meanings

Adjective

• Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.
• In the greatest or highest degree; intense.
• Excessive, or far beyond the norm.
• Drastic, or of great severity.
• Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.
• Ultimate, final or last.

Noun

• 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.

Adverb

• Extremely.

Related

Similar words

• farthest, furthest, most distant, outermost, remotest
• greatest, highest
• excessive, too much
• drastic, severe
• dangerous
• final, last, ultimate

Opposite words

• closest, nearest
• least
• moderate, reasonable

Origin

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