noun. The outermost or farthest point or portion.

noun. The greatest or utmost degree.

noun. Grave danger, necessity, or distress.

noun. An extreme or severe measure.

noun. undefined

noun. A bodily limb.

noun. The hands and feet.

noun. The utmost point or side; the end or the verge; the point or border that terminates a thing: as, the extremities of a bridge; the extremities of a lake.

noun. In anatomy and zoology, a limb or an organ of locomotion; an appendage or appendicular part of the body.

noun. The highest degree; the most intense form: as, to suffer the extremity of pain or cruelty.

noun. Extreme or utmost need, distress, or difficulty; the greatest degree of destitution or helplessness; specifically, death: as, a city besieged and reduced to extremity; man's extremity is God's opportunity.

noun. plural Extreme measures: as, the commander was compelled to proceed to extremities.

noun. Synonyms Extremity, End, Extreme, border, termination. Extremity is opposed to middle, end to beginning, and extreme to mean or moderate degree. Extreme is now used only in figurative senses; the others are literal or figurative. Extreme generally indicates that which is excessive, exaggerated, or extravagant: as, he was dressed in the extreme of the fashion; “avoid extremes,” Pope, Essay on Criticism, l. 385. For the direct expression of a great distress, etc., extremity is used, and extreme is rare or obsolete.

noun. The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part.

noun. One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.

noun. The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form.

noun. The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity.

noun. The most extreme or furthest point of something.

noun. An extreme measure.

noun. A hand or foot.

noun. the outermost or farthest region or point

noun. the greatest or utmost degree

noun. an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)

noun. that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso

noun. an external body part that projects from the body

"At the extremity is the County Courthouse; on the right is the tall spire of the Presbyterian, and on the left the tower of the Episcopal Church."