"overextreme" meaning in English

See overextreme in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ɪkˈstɹiːm/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ɛkˈstɹiːm/ [Received-Pronunciation], /oʊ.vɚˈɪkˈstɹim/ [General-American] Forms: more overextreme [comparative], most overextreme [superlative]
Etymology: over- + extreme Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|over|extreme}} over- + extreme Head templates: {{en-adj}} overextreme (comparative more overextreme, superlative most overextreme)
  1. Too extreme.
    Sense id: en-overextreme-en-adj-QxLbMRwT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with over-

Download JSON data for overextreme meaning in English (2.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "over",
        "3": "extreme"
      },
      "expansion": "over- + extreme",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + extreme",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more overextreme",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most overextreme",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "overextreme (comparative more overextreme, superlative most overextreme)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ov‧er‧ex‧treme"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with over-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1896, The Electrical Review 1896-09-04: Volume 39, Issue 980, St. John Patrick Publishers, page 317",
          "text": "The first of these is that the thermo-electric lines of many metals are by no means straight lines overextreme ranges of temperature.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, New York Medical Journal, M. & M, page 317",
          "text": "I am interested in this question. I believe I am not an overextreme alarmist — not an extremist.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, Archbutt Leonard, Lubrication And Lubricants, page 372",
          "text": "In experiment No. 2 the temperature did not at first rise so rapidly as in the others, but it shot up rapidly after a time, and reached 250° in about 1¾ hours. In this experiment, the wool was teased out with perhaps overextreme care; in the last two experiments less care was taken.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943, United States Congress, Congressional Record April 06-May 13, 1943: Volume 89, Superintendent of Government Documents, page 3543",
          "text": "Similarly, there is no occasion to permit at this critical time any loss of production through overextreme cautiousness in the interpretation of specifications in those cases where for good practical reasons specifications must allow for some exercise of judgment, due caution, and care on the part of inspectors.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Too extreme."
      ],
      "id": "en-overextreme-en-adj-QxLbMRwT",
      "links": [
        [
          "extreme",
          "extreme"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ɪkˈstɹiːm/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ɛkˈstɹiːm/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/oʊ.vɚˈɪkˈstɹim/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overextreme"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "over",
        "3": "extreme"
      },
      "expansion": "over- + extreme",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + extreme",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more overextreme",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most overextreme",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "overextreme (comparative more overextreme, superlative most overextreme)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ov‧er‧ex‧treme"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 4-syllable words",
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with over-",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1896, The Electrical Review 1896-09-04: Volume 39, Issue 980, St. John Patrick Publishers, page 317",
          "text": "The first of these is that the thermo-electric lines of many metals are by no means straight lines overextreme ranges of temperature.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, New York Medical Journal, M. & M, page 317",
          "text": "I am interested in this question. I believe I am not an overextreme alarmist — not an extremist.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, Archbutt Leonard, Lubrication And Lubricants, page 372",
          "text": "In experiment No. 2 the temperature did not at first rise so rapidly as in the others, but it shot up rapidly after a time, and reached 250° in about 1¾ hours. In this experiment, the wool was teased out with perhaps overextreme care; in the last two experiments less care was taken.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943, United States Congress, Congressional Record April 06-May 13, 1943: Volume 89, Superintendent of Government Documents, page 3543",
          "text": "Similarly, there is no occasion to permit at this critical time any loss of production through overextreme cautiousness in the interpretation of specifications in those cases where for good practical reasons specifications must allow for some exercise of judgment, due caution, and care on the part of inspectors.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Too extreme."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "extreme",
          "extreme"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ɪkˈstɹiːm/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ɛkˈstɹiːm/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/oʊ.vɚˈɪkˈstɹim/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overextreme"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.