Extreme

1. n. The first or the last term of a proportion or series.
2. a. At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.
3. a. Last; final; conclusive; — said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.
4. a. The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.
5. a. Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.
6. a. Extended or contracted as much as possible; — said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.
7. n. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.
8. n. Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; — often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet.
9. n. An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.
10. n. Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.