{
    "term": "extreme",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "very great in degree",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We are working under extreme pressure at the moment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "people living in **extreme poverty**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "extreme heat/cold/temperatures"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The heat in the desert was extreme."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Such results should be treated with extreme caution."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film depicts extreme violence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm having extreme difficulty in not losing my temper with her."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "appear", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["particularly", "really", "very"],
                "phrases": ["at its most extreme"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "not ordinary or usual; serious or severe",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**extreme weather** events such as floods and heatwaves"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Children will be removed from their parents only **in extreme circumstances**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It can cause nausea and, **in extreme cases**, death."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ship got into difficulties in **extreme conditions**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was forced to take **extreme measures**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't go doing anything extreme like leaving the country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was the most **extreme example** of cruelty to animals I had ever seen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "extreme weather conditions"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is hero-worship at its most extreme."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "far from what most people consider to be normal, reasonable or acceptable",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**extreme left-wing/right-wing** views"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fascism was basically an **extreme form** of nationalism."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an extreme nationalist organization"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their ideas are too extreme for me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She didn't like the idea—it sounded too extreme."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "appear", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["particularly", "really", "very"],
                "phrases": ["at its most extreme"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "as far as possible from the centre, the beginning or in the direction mentioned",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Kerry is in the extreme west of Ireland."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She sat on the extreme edge of her seat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "politicians on the extreme left of the party"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈstriːm/",
                "audio": "ex/extreme/extreme__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈstriːm/",
                "audio": "ex/extreme/extreme__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via Old French from Latin extremus ‘outermost, utmost’, superlative of exterus ‘outer’."
}