Extreme - (a.) At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

Extreme - (a.) Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.

Extreme - (a.) The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.

Extreme - (a.) Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.

Extreme - (a.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.

Extreme - (n.) The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.

Extreme - (n.) Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet.

Extreme - (n.) An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.

Extreme - (n.) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.

Extreme - (n.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series.

Extremeless - (a.) Having no extremes; infinite.

Extremely - (adv.) In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold.

Extreme - —adj. 1 of a high, or the highest, degree (extreme danger). 2 severe (extreme measures). 3 outermost. 4 on the far left or right of a political party. 5 utmost; last. —n. 1 (often in pl.) Either of two things as remote or as different as possible. 2 thing at either end. 3 highest degree. 4 math. First or last term of a ratio or series. go to extremes take an extreme course of action. In the extreme to an extreme degree. extremely adv. [french from latin]

Extreme unction - n. Last rites in the roman catholic and orthodox churches.