Extremity - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ɪkˈstremətɪ|
Brit.
|ɪkˈstremɪtɪ|
noun
- an external body part that projects from the body (syn: appendage, member)
- an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)
- the greatest or utmost degree
- that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso
- an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)
- the greatest or utmost degree
the extremity of despair
- the outermost or farthest region or point- that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso
Extra examples
The extremity of her grief is impossible to imagine.
...made offers of aid to the refugees, and of asylum in extremity...
It is now the very extremity of the winter here.
The committee was uncomfortable about the extremity of the proposal.
Word forms
noun
singular: extremity
plural: extremities
singular: extremity
plural: extremities
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