Definition of Extreme

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Extreme

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.

Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.

Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.

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.

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

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

The first or the last term of a proportion or series.

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Extreme Quotations

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Groucho Marx

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert Kennedy

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint Eastwood

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint Eastwood

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Shakti Gawain

Extreme Translations

extreme in Afrikaans is ekstreem
extreme in Dutch is uiterst, extreem, ergst, bovenmatig
extreme in Latin is extremus
extreme in Norwegian is drastisk, ekstreme, ytterlighet, ekstrem, ytterst
extreme in Portuguese is extremo
extreme in Spanish is extremo
extreme in Swedish is ytterlighet, ytterlig

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