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单词 extreme
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extremeadjective

uk/ɪkˈstriːm/us/ɪkˈstriːm/

extreme adjective (GREAT)

B2 very large in amount or degree:

extreme pain/stupidity/wealth

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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.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

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:

extreme weather conditions
In extreme cases, the disease can lead to blindness.

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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:

He has rather extreme views.
He's on the extreme right wing of the party.

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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:

They live in the extreme south of the island.

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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:

I've never witnessed such extremes of wealth and poverty.
Most people I know work fairly hard but she takes it to extremes.
in the extreme

used for emphasis; extremely:

Some of the scenes were unpleasant in the extreme.

a situation, feeling, etc. that is the opposite or very different from another one:

My moods seem to go from one extreme to another (= my moods often change from very bad to very good).

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

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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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Linguistics: intensifying expressions
Different and difference
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