- extremity
- n1. limit, outer limit, farthest point, horizon, the end of the earth; ambit, bound, boundary, border, frontier; periphery, margin, edge, rim, brim, brow, lip, ridge, verge, brink; ultimate, end, finale, termination, terminal, terminus.2. limb, appendage, arm, leg, hand, foot; finger, toe, fingertips, digits.3. crisis, emergency, exigency, pressing situation; pinch, plight, quandary, time of stress; adversity, hard luck, dire strait or circumstance, misfortune, setback, hardship, destitution, indigence, trouble, disaster.4. maximum, max., most, uttermost, utmost, extreme, Math. extremum; apex, vertex, apogee, acme, zenith, Latin, ne plus ultra; summit, pinnacle, peak, height, top, tiptop; best, finest, prime, U.S. Sl. the most, U.S. Sl. the greatest, Sl. the tops.5. risk, chance, going out on a limb, heroic act, valor above and beyond the call of duty; last resort, Fr. dernier resort; ultimatum.6. excessiveness, excess, extravagance, exorbitance, outrageousness, inordinance, disproportionateness; immoderation, intemperance, overindulgence; unreasonableness, irrationality, fanaticalness, radicalness, zealousness, rabidity, rabidness; abnormality, unusualness, exceptionality, exceptionalness; unconventionali-ty, differentness, foreignness, strangeness, oddness, bizarreness, weirdness, eccentricity.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.