extremity[noun]Synonyms:- limit, border, boundary, edge, extreme, frontier, pinnacle, tip
- crisis, adversity, dire straits, disaster, emergency, exigency, trouble
- extremities: hands and feet, fingers and toes, limbs
Related Words: acme,
apex,
apogee,
vertex,
zenith [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
ex‧trem‧i‧ty /ɪkˈstreməti, ɪkˈstremɪti/
noun (
plural extremities)
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Word Family: noun:
extreme,
extremism,
extremist,
extremity;
adjective:
extreme,
extremist;
adverb:
extremely]
1. [countable usually plural] one of the parts of your body that is furthest away from the centre, for example your fingers and toes
2. [uncountable] the degree to which something goes beyond what is usually thought to be acceptable:
The committee was uncomfortable about the extremity of the proposal.3. [countable] the part that is furthest away from the centre of something
eastern/southern etc extremity of something the southern extremity of New Zealand [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲