extremeadjective
uk/ɪkˈstriːm/us/ɪkˈstriːm/extreme adjective (GREAT)
B2 very large in amount or degree:
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- The way she had been treated at work had caused her extreme emotional and psychological distress.
- People here are living in conditions of extreme poverty.
- Drivers are warned to take extreme care on the icy roads.
- An expression of extreme disapproval came over his face.
- We took shelter from the extreme heat under a palm tree.
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Enormous
- a whale of a idiom
- almighty
- astronomical
- astronomically
- behemoth
- ginormous
- huge
- humungous
- immeasurable
- immense
- oversize
- overwhelming
- precipitous
- prodigious
- sth knows no bounds idiom
- stratospheric
- thumping
- walloping
- whopping
- yawning
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extreme adjective (BAD)
B2 very severe or bad:
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Linguistics: very & extreme
- abject
- awful
- badly
- beyond
- classic
- classical
- devastating
- drop dead! idiom
- eminently
- esp
- especially
- heartily
- impossibly
- perfect
- sheer
- specially
- supremely
- thoroughly
- whole
- wide
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extreme adjective (BELIEFS)
C2 Extreme beliefs and political parties are considered by most people to be unreasonable and unacceptable:
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Unsuitable and unacceptable
- amiss
- beneath your dignity idiom
- beyond
- beyond the pale idiom
- delegitimize
- improper
- inapt
- incorrect
- indecent
- ineligible
- infelicitous
- not cricket idiom
- offend
- offend against sth
- raffish
- room
- square peg (in a round hole) idiom
- unfit
- unworthy
- vulgar
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extreme adjective (FURTHEST POINT)
[ before noun ] at the furthest point, especially from the centre:
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Distant in space and time
- (in) the middle of nowhere idiom
- afar
- afield
- all/the four corners of the world/earth idiom
- anywhere
- as far as the eye can/could see idiom
- away
- beaten
- far
- furthermost
- furthest
- light year
- light years away idiom
- lonely
- middle
- remotely
- the back of beyond idiom
- virtually
- wide
- you're getting colder idiom
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extremenoun [ C ]
uk/ɪkˈstriːm/us/ɪkˈstriːm/the largest possible amount or degree of something:
used for emphasis; extremely:
a situation, feeling, etc. that is the opposite or very different from another one:
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Extremely good
- admirable
- amazing
- ask for sb/sth
- award-winning
- awesome
- bowl
- brilliant
- incomparable
- incredible
- inspired
- irreplaceable
- life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
- outstanding
- parallel
- sterling
- superb
- superlatively
- supremacy
- supreme
- terrific
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