The Meaning of extreme

• (a.) At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.
• (a.) Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.
• (a.) The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.
• (a.) Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.
• (a.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.
• (n.) The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.
• (n.) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.
• (n.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series.

Synonyms

extreme point , extremum , peak , uttermost(a) , utmost(a) , radical , complete , ingrained , perfect , constitutional , innate , positive , entire , native , primitive , essential , natural , thorough , organic , thoroughgoing , fundamental , original , total , utmost(prenominal) , uttermost(prenominal) , intense

Antonyms

mild , close , moderate , conservative , superficial , trial , incomplete , palliative , slight , tentative , inadequate , partial

Rhymes

academe , agleam , avrim , basim , beahm , beam , beem , bireme , bleam , bloodstream , bream , chromakalim , cream , creme , daelim , daydream , deam , deem , diehm , downstream , dream , episteme , esteem , fleam , gleam , gleim , greim , grieme , hakim , hapoalim , haradim , ibrahim , joachim , karim , keim , liem , mainstream , maxime , midstream , mneme , moonbeam , passim , pezim , priem , raheem , rahim , ream , redeem , regime , reim , sarofim , scheme , scream , seam , seem , sephardim , siem , steam , stream , sunbeam , supreme , team , teem , theme , thieme , upstream , vadim , ziehm