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ex·treme / ikˈstrēm/ • adj. 1. reaching a high or the highest degree; very great: extreme cold. ∎ not usual; exceptional: in extreme cases the soldier may be discharged. ∎ very severe or serious: expulsion is an extreme sanction. ∎ (of a person or their opinions) advocating severe or drastic measures; far from moderate, esp. politically: their more extreme socialist supporters. ∎ denoting or relating to a sport performed in a hazardous environment and involving great physical risk, such as parachuting or white-water rafting. 2. furthest from the center or a given point; outermost: the extreme northwest of Scotland. • n. either of two abstract things that are as different from each other as possible. ∎ the highest degree of something: extremes of temperature. ∎ a very severe or serious act: he was unwilling to go to the extreme of civil war. DERIVATIVES: ex·treme·ly adv. ex·treme·ness n. |
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"extreme." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "extreme." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-extreme.html "extreme." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-extreme.html |
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extreme extreme unction in the Roman Catholic Church, a former name for the sacrament of anointing of the sick, especially when administered to the dying.
extremes meet opposite extremes have much in common. The saying recorded in English from the mid 18th century, but is found earlier in mid 17th-century French, in Pascal's Pensées, ‘les extrèmes se touchent [extremes meet].’ |
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "extreme." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "extreme." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-extreme.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "extreme." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-extreme.html |
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extreme last, final; utmost, exceedingly great; outermost, farthest. XV. — OF. extreme (mod. -ême) — L. extrēmus, superl. corr. to exterus EXTERIOR.
So extremity XIV. — (O)F. or L. |
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T. F. HOAD. "extreme." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "extreme." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-extreme.html T. F. HOAD. "extreme." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-extreme.html |
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•abeam, agleam, beam, blaspheme, bream, cream, deem, deme, downstream, dream, esteem, extreme, gleam, hakim, kilim, meme, midstream, Nîmes, ream, régime, scheme, scream, seam, seem, steam, stream, supreme, team, teem, theme, upstream
•cross-beam • hornbeam • moonbeam
•sunbeam • academe • morpheme
•phoneme • jet stream • airstream
•daydream • mainstream • Brylcreem
•millstream • slipstream
•bloodstream • monotreme
•buttercream • raceme • septime
•centime
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"extreme." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "extreme." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-extreme.html "extreme." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-extreme.html |
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