Extreme

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Meaning of Extreme

Synonyms of Extreme

(Exaggerated), adjective

  • aggrandized
  • amplified
  • beyond the limit
  • drastic
  • enlarged
  • exceeding
  • exceeding the bounds of moderation
  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • fanatical
  • flagrant
  • going to the utmost lengths
  • going too far
  • gross
  • hyperbolic
  • immoderate
  • inordinate
  • intemperate
  • magnified
  • out of bounds
  • out of proportion
  • outrageous
  • overboard
  • overdone
  • overstated
  • overzealous
  • rabid
  • radical
  • undue
  • unreasonable
  • unwarranted
  • violent

(Last), adjective

  • at the edge
  • at the utmost point
  • concluding
  • conclusive
  • definitive
  • determinative
  • ending
  • endmost
  • extremus
  • farthest
  • farthest removed
  • final
  • finishing
  • furthest
  • hindermost
  • hindmost
  • last
  • most distant
  • most remote
  • outermost
  • situated at the farthest limit
  • summus
  • terminal
  • terminative
  • ultimate
  • ultimus
  • utmost
  • uttermost
  • Associated Concepts: extreme cases foreign phrases: Probatis extremis
  • praesumuntur media
  • The extremes having been proved
  • those things which lie between are presumed

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Etimology of -ultra

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word-forming element meaning “beyond” (ultraviolet) or “extremely” (ultramodern), from Latin ultra- from ultra (adv. and prep.) “beyond, on the other side, on the farther side, past, over, across,” from PIE *ol-tero-, suffixed form of PIE root *al- (1) “beyond.” In common use from early 19c., it appears to have arisen from French political designations. As its own word, a noun meaning “extremist” of various stripes, it is first recorded 1817, from French ultra, shortening of ultra-royaliste “extreme royalist.”

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