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Antonyms for extremes

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ik-streem
Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈstrim

Definition of extremes

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Old French extreme (13c.), from Latin extremus "outermost, utmost, farthest, last," superlative of exterus (see exterior).
  • In English as in Latin, not always felt as a superlative, hence more extreme, most extreme (which were condemned by Johnson). The noun is first recorded 1540s, originally of the end of life, cf. Latin in extremis. Extreme unction preserves the sense of "last, latest" (15c.). Extremes "opposite ends of anything" is from 1550s.
  • noun ultimate; limit
Example sentences :
  • While Shakespeare was in London he allowed his wife to suffer the extremes of poverty.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • Boldness and excessive timidity are the two extremes to be avoided.
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • The generous interpret motives in extremes—ever too enthusiastic or too severe.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • No man is complete in whom there are no extremes, or in whom those extremes do not meet.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • Will—carried to extremes, absorbing and swallowing up the rest of the personality.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • There are many transitional forms between these two extremes.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • To the extremes of life, youth and age, she had appeared an object of pity.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • The moral he desires to point is the 'falsehood of extremes'.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The ever-increasing power of locomotion may join the extremes of earth.
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • But, again, the middle will be equidistant from the extremes; or it would not be in the middle?
  • Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato

Synonyms for extremes

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