extremely
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
extreme/ɪkˈstriːm/
▶adjective
- 1 very great.
■ not usual; exceptional.
■ very severe or serious.
■ denoting or relating to a sport performed in a hazardous environment.
- 2 far from moderate, especially politically.
- 3 furthest from the centre or a given point.
- 1 either of two things that are as different from each other as possible.
■ the most extreme degree: extremes of temperature.
- 2 Logic the subject or predicate in a proposition, or the major or minor term in a syllogism.
– derivatives
extremely adverb,
extremeness noun.
extremely adverb,
extremeness noun.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. extremus ‘outermost, utmost’, superlative of exterus ‘outer’.
'extremely' also found in these Oxford entries:
abysmal
- Adonis
- aerogel
- and
- anything
- apple
- arm
- armpit
- asinine
- astronomical
- atom
- atomic clock
- atrocious
- atrocity
- bake
- barmy
- big bang
- big crunch
- bitching
- black swan
- bladdered
- blind
- blissful
- blistering
- blood
- blotto
- blow
- boiling
- bone dry
- bone idle
- bone-tired
- brain-dead
- brass
- breakneck
- breakout
- buddy-buddy
- bundle
- caesium
- cash-strapped
- catastrophic
- chest
- cinch
- cloud
- cock-a-hoop
- colossal
- comatose
- convoluted
- corundum
- crackbrained
- crap
