Word Finder - extreme

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The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition.

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Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.

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extremes of temperature

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A drastic expedient.

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Some people go to extremes for attention on social media.

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Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6.

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Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.

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At the extreme edges, the coating is very thin.

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In the greatest or highest degree; intense.

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He has an extreme aversion to needles, and avoids visiting the doctor.

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Excessive, or far beyond the norm.

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His extreme love of model trains showed in the rails that criscrossed his entire home.

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Drastic, or of great severity.

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I think the new laws are extreme, but many believe them necessary for national security.

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Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.

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Television has begun to reflect the growing popularity of extreme sports such as bungee jumping and skateboarding.

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Ultimate, final or last.

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the extreme hour of life

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Extremely.

The situation called for extreme measures.

Charles bared his teeth in a look of extreme displeasure.

Even though she carried it to extreme, he admired her integrity.

On the faces of all who came from the field of battle, and of those who stood around him, Kutuzov noticed an expression of extreme tension.

They occur also on the extreme north-western coast, in the Nurra.

He managed the attitude of the Cha Cha without the usual extreme movement of the hips.

We are entering a point where technology will change at extreme speeds.

She had the impression of extreme intelligence and extreme determination, a combination that awed and intimidated her.

An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest.

Their threat is taught to us diplomats as an extreme negotiating tactic.

It has more than one advantage over the meadow mushroom in its extreme commonness, its profuse growth, the length of the season in which it may be gathered, the total absence of varietal forms, its adaptability for being dried and preserved for years, and its persistent delicious taste.

With extreme trepidation, I complied, closing the door behind me.

We're doing an extreme close-up, so we don't have to do too much post-photo work.

The department is served chiefly by the lines of the Northern railway; in addition, the main line of the Eastern railway to Strassburg traverses the extreme south.

The form of worship associated with Presbyterianism has been marked by extreme simplicity.

In the extreme north a little over a degree and a half of territory lies within the torrid zone, extending from the Pilcomayo about 500 m.

In the extreme west the salinity of the surface water is about 36 3 per mille, and it increases eastwards to 37 6 east of Sardinia and 39 0 and upwards in the Levant.

The second party was directly opposed to the first; one extreme, as always happens, was met by representatives of the other.

Precipitation is greatest in the mountains, over 50 in.; and least over the Ohio Valley, the eastern Panhandle and the extreme south-east, 35 to 40 in.

The rupture had not yet been made evident between the Girondist party and that section still more extreme, that of the Mountain.

The entrance to it was in the extreme west, on the borders of Ocean, in the mythical land of the Cimmerians.

I will confess to you, dear Mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for the army was a great grief to me.

The murder of Kotzebue by Karl Sand, however, shocked him out of his extreme revolutionary views, and from this time he tended, under the influence of the writings of Hamann and Herder, more and more in the direction of conservatism and romanticism, until at last he ended, in a mood almost of pessimism, by attaching himself to the extreme right wing of the forces of reaction.

The extreme length of the state from north to south is about 240 m., the extreme breadth from east to west about 265 m.

The climate of Sardinia is more extreme than that of Italy, but varies considerably in different districts.

In 1893 he retired, and devoted himself to journalism and lecturing, becoming well known for his ardent advocacy of extreme socialistic views.

A code of instructions for the guidance of church courts when engaged in cases of discipline is in general use, and bears witness to the extreme care taken not only to have things done decently and in order, but also to prevent hasty, impulsive and illogical procedure in the investigation of charges of heresy or immorality.

In the extreme south, where an Arctic vegetation is found, the pastures are rich, and the forests, largely of the Antarctic beech (Fagus antarctica), are vigorous wherever the rainfall is heavy.

The vine grows generally in France, except in the extreme north and in Normandy and Brittany.

The extreme republicans, anticipating Rousseau, put forward the Agreement of the People.

The Albigenses have received much sympathy, as being a kind of pre-Reformation Protestants; but it is now recognized that their tenets were an extreme form of Manichaeism.

His method was to travel over the country on foot and barefooted, in extreme poverty, simplicity and austerity, preaching and instructing in highways and villages and towns, and in the castles of the nobility, controverting and discussing with the heretics.

Also the parts of Asia affected were chiefly India and the extreme East.

The east and the extreme south-west parts are the principal industrial districts.

The summer heat is extreme, and in winter frost is not unknown.

The war may be studied from the military point of view as an extreme example of what Clausewitz calls "war with a restricted aim."

Under extreme crushing these basic rocks may be converted into dark biotite-schists, or greenish chloriteschists.

These changes are in the higher insects so extreme that it is difficult to imagine how they could be increased.

In the case of the common drone-fly, Eristalis tenax, the individual, from a sedentary maggot living in filth, without any relations of sex, and with only unimportant organs for the ingestion of its foul nutriment, changes to a creature of extreme alertness, with magnificent powers of flight, living on the products of the flowers it frequents, and endowed with highly complex sexual structures.

As an extreme contrast to this After Westwood, c am odeif orm type, we take the maggot Modern Classification.

The extreme of this " division of labour " is seen, in those insects whose jaws are vestigial in the winged state, when, the need for feeding all behind them, they have but to pair, to lay eggs and to die.

The eruciform larva of the Orthorrhapha leads on to the headless vermiform maggot of the Cyclorrhapha, and in the latter sub-order we find metamorphosis carried to its extreme point, the muscid flies being the most highly specialized of all the Hexapoda as regards structure, while their maggots are the most degraded of all insect larvae.

In 1832 Edward Lear, afterwards well known as a humorist, brought out his Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, a volume which deserves especial notice from the extreme fidelity to nature and the great artistic skill with which the figures were executed.

Moreover, the author goes on to remark that in adult birds trace of the origin of the sternum from five centres of ossification is always more or less indicated by sutures, and that, though these sutures had been generally regarded as ridges for the attachment of the sternal muscles, they indeed mark the extreme points of the five primary bony pieces of the sternum.

He also carried to a very extreme limit his views of nomenclature, which were certainly not in accordance with those held by most zoologists,, though this is a matter so trifling as to need no details in illustration.

The extreme length of the limbs and the absence of a tail are other features of these small apes, which are thoroughly arboreal in their habits, and make the woods resound with their unearthly cries at night.

The acquisition of Cyprus marks the extreme limit of Venetian expansion in the Levant; from this date onward there is little to record save the gradual loss of her maritime possessions.

Those who take up such an extreme position regarding his merits have known too little of the state of contemporary science, and have limited their comparison to the works of the scholastic theologians.

Except in the extreme north and south, and on the tops of the highest mountains, where there is no insect life as food supply, spiders are found all over the world, even in isolated oceanic islands.

Fully aware of the danger, he pays his addresses with extreme caution, frequently waiting for hours in her vicinity before venturing to come to close quarters.