extreme

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But cutting off the DVD business like that... it's extreme.

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Quick take

the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of extreme gathered in one view.

noun

the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"

noun

the point located farthest from the middle of something

adjective

of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; "extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure"; "utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the uttermost distress"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for extreme.

noun

the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"

noun

the point located farthest from the middle of something

adjective

of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; "extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure"; "utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the uttermost distress"

adjective

far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree; "an extreme example"; "extreme temperatures"; "extreme danger"

adjective

beyond a norm in views or actions; "an extreme conservative"; "an extreme liberal"; "extreme views on integration"; "extreme opinions"

adjective

most distant in any direction; "the extreme edge of town"

Example sentences

But cutting off the DVD business like that... it's extreme.

Although this is an extreme example, I sympathize and often have feelings like this.

In an extreme case they might lose their job and take a reputation hit, but most likely they'll just leave and get a higher salary elsewhere.

Paltalk exercises extreme care to protect and secure users’ data, only responding to court orders as required to by law.

Full Tilt went to the extreme of bringing in five separate firms to each give an opinion - and each found in favor of online poker not being online gambling.

There are a large gradient of views here, and on one extreme are the bigots who hate homosexuals and on the other there are people who simply have hangups about the word "marriage" vs "civil unions.

Now, it's entirely possible that he would never have authorized iOS shipping with a broken maps application, but to suggest that Apple's current direction is anything other than his idea and his impetus is naive in the extreme.

In almost every case but that extreme one, though, it is pretty hard to prove that a promoter never had any intention of making some good-faith effort to do the development, even if the promoter is flaky or uses bad business judgment in how funds are spent.