extreme🔊

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.

(archaic) Ultimate, final or last.

The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition.

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

(obsolete) One of the last moments of life.

A drastic expedient.

(obsolete) Hardships, straits.

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

(archaic) Extremely.