extreme

Adjective

• most distant in any direction
  • the extreme edge of town
    

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

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

• 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
    

Noun

• the point located farthest from the middle of something

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  utmost(a) , uttermost(a) , extreme point , extremum