extreme

extreme is a 7-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.
2. adjective. Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.
3. adjective. The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.
4. adjective. Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.
5. adjective. Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.
6. noun. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.
9. noun. Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.
10. noun. The first or the last term of a proportion or series.
11. noun. the furthest or highest degree of something

    "he carried it to extremes"

12. noun. the point located farthest from the middle of something

    Synonyms: extremum

13. adjective. most distant in any direction

    "the extreme edge of town"

14. adjective. of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity

    "extreme cold"

    "extreme caution"

    Synonyms: utmost, uttermost

15. adjective. far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree

    "an extreme example"

    "extreme temperatures"

16. adjective. beyond a norm in views or actions

    "an extreme conservative"

    "an extreme liberal"

Synonyms

extremum, utmost, uttermost

Common word forms

extremer, extremes, extremely, extremest, extremeless, extremeness

Words from these letters

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