Tra từ extreme - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

ex·treme [extreme extremes extremest] adjective, noun BrE [ɪkˈstriːm] NAmE [ɪkˈstriːm]
adjective
1. usually before noun very great in degree
• We are working under extreme pressure at the moment.
•people living in extreme poverty
• I'm having extreme difficulty in not losing my temper with her.
•The heat in the desert was extreme.
2. not ordinary or usual; serious or severe
• Children will be removed from their parents only in extreme circumstances.
• Don't go doing anything extreme like leaving the country.
•It was the most extreme example of cruelty to animals I had ever seen.
•extreme weather conditions
3. (of people, political organizations, opinions, etc.)far from what most people consider to be normal, reasonable or acceptable
•extreme left-wing/right-wing views
•an extreme nationalist organization
• Their ideas are too extreme for me.
Opp: ↑moderate
4. only before noun as far as possible from the centre, the beginning or in the direction mentioned
• Kerry is in the extreme west of Ireland.
• She sat on the extreme edge of her seat.
•politicians on the extreme left of the party

Word Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin extremus ‘outermost, utmost’, superlative of exterus ‘outer’.

Thesaurus:
extreme adj.
1. usually before noun
•We are still working under extreme pressure.
intense • • maximum • • utmost • • supreme •
Opp: moderate
extreme/maximum/the utmost/supreme importance
extreme/maximum/the utmost care/difficulty
extreme/intense/supreme happiness
Extreme or intense? Intense describes a very strong or deep feeling or quality; extreme describes a feeling, quality, action or state that is at its limit
•intense desire/interest/heat/blue eyes
• extreme pain/heat/violence/danger
2.
•It was the most extreme example of cruelty to animals I have ever seen.
severe • • serious • • desperate • • drastic • • acute • |formal grave • |especially BrE, formal dire •
Opp: slight, Opp: mild
(a/an) extreme/severe/serious/desperate/acute/dire shortage/poverty
a/an extreme/serious/desperate/acute/dire need
extreme/severe/serious/acute/grave danger
3. (usually disapproving)
•extreme left-wing/right-wing views
radical • • revolutionary • |disapproving extremist • |usually approving progressive •
Opp: moderate
extreme/radical/revolutionary/extremist/progressive ideas/views

Example Bank:
•This is hero-worship at its most extreme.
•Children will be removed from their parents only in extreme circumstances.
•Don't go doing anything extreme like leaving the country.
•I'm having extreme difficulty in not losing my temper with her.
•She didn't like the idea— it sounded too extreme.
•There are still thousands of people living in extreme poverty.
•extreme left-wing/right-wing views
Idioms: ↑go to extremes ▪ ↑in the extreme ▪ ↑take something to extremes

noun
1. a feeling, situation, way of behaving, etc. that is as different as possible from another or is opposite to it
•extremes of love and hate
•He used to be very shy, but now he's gone to the opposite extreme (= changed from one extreme kind of behaviour to another).
2. the greatest or highest degree of sth
•extremes of cold, wind or rain
•the climatic extremes of the mountains

Word Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin extremus ‘outermost, utmost’, superlative of exterus ‘outer’.

Example Bank:
•After always putting too much salt in her cooking, she went to the opposite extreme and banished it completely.
•At the extreme, some nuclear waste is so radioactive it has to be kept isolated for thousands of years.
•At the other extreme, women still childless at 32 were more likely to be from a professional background.
•Avoid any extremes of emotional behaviour.
•He went to the extreme of adulation, describing Churchill as the greatest man who ever lived.
•His voice was scornful in the extreme.
•It's a difficult place to live because of its climatic extremes.
•It's foolish to take any dieting to extremes.
•She goes from one extreme to the other, and either works very hard or does absolutely nothing.
•She has taken cleanliness to a new extreme.
•She was always generous to the extreme.
•Their views are at opposite extremes from each other.
•There has to be a solution between these extremes.
•There is no need to go to such extremes.
•These photographs show extremes of obesity and emaciation.