extreme – English noun declension

English noun forms of extreme

Noun: extreme
Singularextreme
Pluralextremes

Sample Sentences

  • Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.[…]But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • extremes of temperature
  • Most public discussion about heat extremes refers to risks faced by the general community. Yet even greater extremes of heat exposure do and will occur in many occupational settings, posing special risks to health, behavior, and work capacity. [2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 56:]
  • Some people go to extremes for attention on social media.
  • a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts,
  • With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits,
  • Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are,
  • And might, if my extreames had ful euents,
  • Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:]

Etymology

Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French extreme, from Latin extrēmus, the superlative of exter. See: Latin Nouns 'extrēmus'.