adj.
- very great.
▸not usual; exceptional.
▸very severe or serious.
▸denoting or relating to a sport performed in a hazardous environment.
- far from moderate, especially politically.
- furthest from the centre or a given point.
n.
- either of two things that are as different from each other as possible.
▸the most extreme degree:
extremes of temperature.
- Logic the subject or predicate in a proposition, or the major or minor term in a syllogism.
Derivative
- extremely adv.
- extremeness n.
Etymology
ME: via OFr. from L. extremus ‘outermost, utmost’, superlative of exterus ‘outer’.