Definition of: extreme

(ik·strēm′) adjective
1. At or to the farthest limit; outermost; utmost.
2. Last; final.
3. In the utmost degree; far removed from the normal or average: extreme joy; extreme poverty.
4. Immoderate or radical: extreme opinions.
—noun
1. The utmost or highest degree: the extreme of cruelty.
2. Either of two ends (of a line, series, scale, etc.): extremes of temperature.
3. Math. The first or last term of a proportion or series.
4. Logic a Either the subject or predicate of a proposition, distinguished from the copula. b Either of the two terms of a syllogism which, separated in the premises, are joined in the conclusion. [<OF <L extremus, superl. of exterus outside]
—ex·treme′ly adverb
—ex·treme′ness noun