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in the extreme

in the extreme prepositional phrase: to a very great or excessive degree.

Prepositional phrase

  1. To a very great or excessive degree.
    • It was rude in the extreme to act the way he did at the funeral.
    • The surroundings become bleak in the extreme as the timber line is approached and trees give place to thinly scattered birches that are little more than bushes.1957 August, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 574

in the extreme meaning in Malayalam

in the extreme in Malayalam

extremely, exceedingly, very
അങ്ങേയറ്റം, ഭൃശം, ഏറ്റവും, അത്യന്തം, വളരെ, അത്യധികമായി

Questions about in the extreme

What does in the extreme mean?
In the extreme means to a very great or excessive degree.
What is in the extreme in Malayalam?
In the extreme in Malayalam is അങ്ങേയറ്റം, ഭൃശം, ഏറ്റവും. See In the extreme meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is in the extreme?
In the extreme is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the extreme in the dictionary

  1. in the ear
  2. in the end
  3. in the event
  4. in the event of
  5. in the event that
  6. in the extreme
  7. in the eye of the wind
  8. in the eyes of
  9. in the eyes of the law
  10. in the face of
  11. in the family way

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in the extreme (page history and authors); in the extreme (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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