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sideshow; farce, burlesque, comic opera, opera buffa, op£ra bouffe, op£ra comique, operetta,

extreme, adj. 1. exceptional, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, notable, outstanding, remarkable, SI. hell of a; unusual, abnormal, unconventional, different, offbeat, exotic, foreign, strange, odd, bizarre, weird, eccentric, Inf. way-out. SI. far-out; egregious, flagrant, glaring.
2. maximum, maximal, max., greatest, most, utmost, uttermost; supreme, paramount, superlative, Inf. almighty; highest, uppermost, upper, topmost, top, tiptop, summital, apical.
3. lowest, least, slightest, smallest, minimal, minim.
4. farthest, remotest, outermost, outlying, outer, apogeal, apogean, marginal, peripheral; distant, remote, far-off, faraway; last, hindmost, rearmost, end-most, ultimate, Fr. dernier, final, terminal, terminating, ending, finishing, closing, concluding, culminating.
5. radical, drastic, complete, total, thorough, thoroughgoing; sheer, utter, downright, out-and-out, unqualified, unmitigated, arrant; excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, inordinate, undue, unnecessary, uncalled for, disproportionate; unlimited, beyond the bounds, Inf. steep, Fr. outrk', immoderate, intemperate, overindulgent, uncontrolled, unrestrained, unbridled, violent, severe; unreasonable, irrational, uncompromising, fanatical, zealous, rabid, Inf. all-fired. -n. 6. maximum, max., most, uttermost, utmost, Math, extremum; apex, vertex, apogee, acme, zenith, Latin, ne plus ultra', summit, pinnacle, peak, height, top, tip, tiptop; best, finest, prime, U.S. SI. the most, U.S. SI. the greatest, SI. the tops.
7. opposite, pole, contrary, counter, contradiction, antonym, the other end of the scale.
8. excessiveness, excess, extravagance, exorbitance, outrageousness, inordinance, disproportion; immoderation, intemperance, overindulgence; unreasonableness, irrationality, fanaticalness, radicalness, zealousness, rabidity, rabidness.
9. extremity, crisis, emergency, exigency, pressing situation; adversity, pinch, plight, quandary, dire strait or circumstance, time of stress.
10. last resort, Fr. dernier resort, risk, chance, going out on a limb; ultimatum.

extremely, adv. 1. exceptionally, extraordinarily, unusually, uncommonly, abnormally; remarkably, notably, damned, danged, U.S. Inf. darned, SI. hell of a.
2. very, exceedingly, excessively, inordinately, disproportionately, to a degree, SI. almighty; immoderately, intemperately, overindulgently, uncontrollably, unrestrainedly; exorbitantly, to the nth degree, outrageously, drastically, radically; zealously, rabidly, fanatically, Both Chiefly U.S. Inf. all-fired, all-firedly.

extremist, n. radical, ultra, ultraist, immoderate, sansculotte, Politics. Jacobin; zealot, fanatic, raver, SI. crazy; leftist, left-winger, radical, Communist, Derog. SI. commie, Bolshevik, Red, SI. pinko, SI. pink, Inf. Wobbly; reactionary, rightist, right-winger, conservative, ultraconservative, champion of the status quo, diehard, Bircher, Birchite, Bourbon, Hunker, Tory; Inf. hard-hat.

extremity, n. 1. limit, outer limit, farthest point, horizon, the end of the earth; ambit, bound, boundary, border, frontier; periphery, margin, edge, rim, brim, brow, lip, ridge, verge, brink; ultimate, end, finale, termination, terminal, terminus.
2. limb, appendage, arm, leg, hand, foot; finger, toe, fingertips, digits.
3. crisis, emergency, exigency, pressing situation; pinch, plight, quandary, time of stress; adversity, hard luck, dire strait or circumstance, misfortune, setback, hardship, destitution, indigence, trouble, disaster.