extreme

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NGSL Rank: 1854
extreme
ɪkˈstriːm Listen
Meanings
adjective
  • reaching a high or the highest degree; very great.
    E.g. extreme cold
  • furthest from the centre or a given point.
    E.g. the extreme north-west of Scotland
noun
  • either of two abstract things that are as different from each other as possible.
    E.g. we represented opposite extremes of college society—he a member of the Old Guard, I one of the radicals
  • the subject or predicate in a proposition, or the major or minor term in a syllogism (as contrasted with the middle term).

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