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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Extreme \Ex*treme"\, a. [L. extremus, superl. of exter, extrus, on the outside, outward: cf. F. extr[^e]me. See {Exterior}.] 1. At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit. [1913 Webster] 2. Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life. [1913 Webster] 3. The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly. "The extremest remedy." --Dryden. "Extreme rapidity." --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. [1913 Webster] The Puritans or extreme Protestants. --Gladstone. [1913 Webster] 5. (Mus.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth. [1913 Webster] {Extreme and mean ratio} (Geom.), the relation of a line and its segments when the line is so divided that the whole is to the greater segment is to the less. {Extreme distance}. (Paint.) See {Distance}., n., 6. {Extreme unction}. See under {Unction}. [1913 Webster] Note: Although this adjective, being superlative in signification, is not properly subject to comparison, the superlative form not unfrequently occurs, especially in the older writers. "Tried in his extremest state." --Spenser. "Extremest hardships." --Sharp. "Extremest of evils." --Bacon. "Extremest verge of the swift brook." --Shak. "The sea's extremest borders." --Addison. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Extreme \Ex*treme"\, n. 1. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster] 3. An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. "Resolute in most extremes." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. (Logic) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them. [1913 Webster] 5. (Math.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series. [1913 Webster] {In the extreme} as much as possible. "The position of the Port was difficult in the extreme." --J. P. Peters. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: extreme adj 1: of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; "extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure"; "utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the uttermost distress" [syn: {extreme}, {utmost(a)}, {uttermost(a)}] 2: far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree; "an extreme example"; "extreme temperatures"; "extreme danger" 3: beyond a norm in views or actions; "an extreme conservative"; "an extreme liberal"; "extreme views on integration"; "extreme opinions" 4: most distant in any direction; "the extreme edge of town" n 1: the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes" 2: the point located farthest from the middle of something [syn: {extreme point}, {extreme}, {extremum}] From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Extreme /ɛkstreːmə/ excesses