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extreme
adjective as in very great
adjective as in beyond reason and convention
Strongest matches
absolute, dire, drastic, egregious, exaggerated, exceptional, excessive, extraordinary, harsh, irrational, outrageous, radical, remarkable, severe, sheer, unreasonable, unusual, utter
Weak matches
downright, extravagant, fabulous, fanatical, flagrant, immoderate, improper, imprudent, inordinate, intemperate, nonsensical, out of proportion, out-and-out, preposterous, rabid, rigid, strict, thorough, unbending, uncommon, uncompromising, unconventional, unseemly, zealous
adjective as in faraway
Example Sentences
He’s an extreme case of a phenomenon that has an official name: post-founder syndrome.
“It’s pretty extreme. I worked for six months to get two enormous bottle trees here.”
However, the league does provide general guidance for supporters on safe ticket buying, publishes a list of known unauthorised ticket websites and urges fans to exercise extreme caution when dealing with these websites.
Fulani families traditionally walk for hundreds of kilometres from the extreme north to central Nigeria and beyond at least twice a year to find land for their prized cattle.
The malleability of the dog genome allows for enormous physical variety, she explained, meaning that breeders can push features to extremes—squashing snouts, piling on wrinkles.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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