extreme

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ opposite, polar

▪

Their views are at opposite extremes from each other.

▪ logical

▪ new

▪

She has taken cleanliness to a new extreme.

▪ climatic, political, temperature

▪

It's a difficult place to live because of its climatic extremes.

VERB + EXTREME

▪ avoid

▪

Avoid any extremes of temperature.

▪ go to, reach

▪

There is no need to go to such extremes.

▪ carry sth to, take sth to

▪

It's foolish to take any dieting to extremes.

▪ represent

PREPOSITION

▪ at an/the extreme

▪

At the extreme, some nuclear waste is so radioactive it has to be kept isolated for thousands of years.

▪ between extremes

▪

There has to be a solution between these extremes.

▪ in the extreme

▪

His voice was scornful in the extreme.

▪ to the extreme

▪

She was always generous to the extreme.

▪ extremes of

▪

These photographs show extremes of obesity and emaciation.

PHRASES

▪ at one extreme, at the other extreme

▪

At the other extreme, women still childless at 32 were more likely to be from a professional background.

▪ go from one extreme to the other

▪

She goes from one extreme to the other, and either works very hard or does absolutely nothing.

▪ go to the opposite extreme, go to the other extreme

▪

After always putting too much salt in her cooking, she went to the opposite extreme and banished it completely.

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adj.

VERBS

▪ be

▪ appear, seem, sound

▪ become

▪ consider sth

ADVERB

▪ particularly, really, very

▪ a bit, fairly, a little, quite, rather, somewhat

▪

Some of his views seem rather extreme.

PHRASES

▪ at its most extreme

▪

This is hero-worship at its most extreme.

Extreme is used with these nouns: ↑agitation, ↑agony, ↑altitude, ↑brutality, ↑care, ↑case, ↑caution, ↑circumstance, ↑climate, ↑close-up, ↑cold, ↑complexity, ↑condition, ↑corner, ↑cruelty, ↑danger, ↑degree, ↑delicacy, ↑deprivation, ↑difficulty, ↑disappointment, ↑discomfort, ↑dislike, ↑displeasure, ↑distaste, ↑distress, ↑drought, ↑emergency, ↑emotion, ↑end, ↑environment, ↑envy, ↑example, ↑excitement, ↑exertion, ↑exhaustion, ↑fatigue, ↑form, ↑gravity, ↑hardship, ↑heat, ↑hostility, ↑hunger, ↑imbalance, ↑importance, ↑instance, ↑jealousy, ↑left, ↑limit, ↑manifestation, ↑measure, ↑nationalism, ↑nationalist, ↑nervousness, ↑old age, ↑pain, ↑paranoia, ↑politics, ↑position, ↑poverty, ↑precision, ↑provocation, ↑reaction, ↑reluctance, ↑repression, ↑right, ↑scepticism, ↑sensitivity, ↑shyness, ↑simplicity, ↑sport, ↑stress, ↑subtlety, ↑tactic, ↑temperature, ↑tiredness, ↑top, ↑type, ↑urgency, ↑variability, ↑variation, ↑version, ↑view, ↑violence, ↑vulnerability, ↑weather, ↑wing, ↑youth