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Extreme Behaviour Describe Situations Disapprove Severe Unusual Expect

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You use e______ to describe situations and behaviour which are much more severe or unusual than you would expect, especially when you disapprove of them because of this.You use extreme to describe situations and behaviour which are much more severe or unusual than you would expect, especially when you disapprove of them because of this.
The extreme case was Poland, where 29 parties won seats.
His punishment seemed a little extreme.
The scheme has been condemned as extreme.
word extreme
full-definition
adjective
Extreme means very great in degree or intensity.
The girls were afraid of snakes and picked their way along with extreme caution.
...people living in extreme poverty.
...the author's extreme reluctance to generalise.
You use extreme to describe situations and behaviour which are much more severe or unusual than you would expect, especially when you disapprove of them because of this.
The extreme case was Poland, where 29 parties won seats.
His punishment seemed a little extreme.
The scheme has been condemned as extreme.
You use extreme to describe opinions, beliefs, or political movements which you disapprove of because they are very different from those that most people would accept as reasonable or normal .
This extreme view hasn't captured popular opinion.
...the reemergence of the extreme right.
The extreme end or edge of something is its furthest end or edge.
...the room at the extreme end of the corridor.
...winds from the extreme north.
noun
You can use extremes to refer to situations or types of behaviour that have opposite qualities to each other, especially when each situation or type of behaviour has such a quality to the greatest degree possible .
...a 'middle way' between the extremes of success and failure.
They can withstand extremes of temperature and weather without fading or cracking.
inflections extremes
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