Usually means: Pushing limits beyond normal boundaries.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. extreme: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. extreme: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extreme: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extreme: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extreme: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extreme, extreme, eXtreme: Wordnik
  7. extreme: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extreme: Wiktionary
  9. extreme: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extreme: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extreme: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. extreme: Dictionary.com
  13. extreme (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. extreme: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Extreme (Travel Channel series), Extreme (album), Extreme (band), Extreme (disambiguation), Extreme, The Extreme (Animorphs), The Extreme (novel), The Extreme: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Extreme: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. extreme: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. extreme: Rhymezone
  19. extreme, extrme: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. extreme: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. extreme: Free Dictionary
  22. extreme: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. extreme: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. extreme: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extreme: Toonopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extreme: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extreme: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. EXTREME: Acronym Finder
  3. extreme: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. EXTREME, Extreme [twister]: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extreme: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.
adjective:  In the greatest or highest degree; intense.
adjective:  Excessive, or far beyond the norm.
adjective:  Drastic, or of great severity.
adjective:  Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.
adjective:  (archaic) Ultimate, final or last.
noun:  The greatest or utmost point, degree, or condition.
noun:  Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.
noun:  (obsolete, plural only) One of the last moments of life.
noun:  A drastic expedient.
noun:  (obsolete, plural only) Hardships, straits.
noun:  (mathematics) Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6.
adverb:  (archaic) Extremely.

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