extremes
Sayik-STREEMZUS/ɪkˈstɹimz/UK/ɪkˈstɹiːmz/
- 1The two ends of a range that are farthest apart, like the hottest and coldest.
Like the two ends of a seesaw: as far apart as you can get.
The desert swings between extremes, freezing at night and burning hot by day.
Her moods jump between two extremes, from very happy to very sad.
Similarfringes, margins, poles
Oppositemiddle, center, mainstream
- 2Plural of extreme. Use this form when you mean more than one extreme.
Weather extremes are becoming more common from one year to the next.
The two political extremes rarely agree on anything.
Note
extremes is a form of extreme
extreme, noun: The highest or strongest point that something can reach. Full entry
- Forms
- extremeextremes plural
- Spelling
- extreme → extremes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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