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extrême — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dire adj Extremely serious or urgent, often warning of disaster.
  • extreme adj Of the greatest possible degree or intensity.
  • far adjective Distant in space or time.
  • outlier noun A data point that sits far away from the rest of a set of results, and which may signal a real extreme case or a measurement error.
  • utmost adjective The greatest or most extreme possible.

Senses

extrême is used for these senses in English:

  • dire Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
  • dire Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
  • extreme Excessive, or far beyond the norm.
  • outlier (statistics) A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.
  • utmost The most extreme; greatest, ultimate.

dire — full definition

  1. adj Extremely serious or urgent, often warning of disaster.
  2. adj (informal) Extremely bad in quality.

extreme — full definition

  1. adj Of the greatest possible degree or intensity.
  2. adj Very far from what is moderate or normal, especially in views or behaviour.
  3. noun The furthest or highest point of something; one end of a range.

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