单词 | extreme |
释义 | extreme adj. & n. --adj   1. reaching a high or the highest degree; exceedingly great or intense (extreme old age; in extreme danger).   2. a severe, stringent; lacking restraint or moderation (take extreme measures; an extreme reaction). b (of a person, opinion, etc.) going to great lengths; advocating immoderate measures.   3. outermost; furthest from the centre; situated at either end (the extreme edge).   4. Polit. on the far left or right of a party.   5. utmost; last. --n   1. (often in pl.) one or other of two things as remote or as different as possible.   2. a thing at either end of anything.   3. the highest degree of anything.   4. Math. the first or the last term of a ratio or series.   5. Logic the subject or predicate in a proposition; the major or the minor term in a syllogism. Phrases and idioms extreme unction the last rites in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches. go to extremes take an extreme course of action. go to the other extreme take a diametrically opposite course of action. in the extreme to an extreme degree. Derivatives extremely adv. extremeness n. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L extremus superl. of exterus outward |
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