English-Thai Dictionary

extremity

N ความ ที่สุด  ความรุนแรง ที่สุด  ความสูง สุด  kwam-ti-sud

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXTREMITY

n.[L. extremitas.] The utmost point or side; the verge; the point or border that terminates a thing; as the extremities of a country. 1. The utmost parts. The extremities of the body, in painting and sculpture, are the head, hands and feet; but in anatomy, the term is applied to the limbs only.
2. The utmost point; the highest or furthest degree; as the extremity of pain or suffering; the extremity of cruelty. Even charity and forbearance may be carried to extremity.
3. Extreme or utmost distress, straits or difficulties; as a city besieged and reduced to extremity.
4. The utmost rigor or violence. The Greeks have endured oppression in its utmost extremity.
5. The most aggravated state.
The world is running after farce, the extremity of bad poetry.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EXTREMITY

Ex *trem "i *ty, n.; pl. Extremities (. Etym: [L. extremitas: cf. F.extrémité. ]

 

1. The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country. They sent fleets... to the extremities of Ethiopia. Arbuthnot.

 

2. (Zoöl.)

 

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

 

3. The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form. "The extremity of bodily pain. " Ray.

 

4. The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity. Divers evils and extremities that follow upon such a compulsion shall here be set in view. Milton. Upon mere extremity he summoned this last Parliament. Milton.

 

Syn. -- Verge; border; extreme; end; termination.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

extremity

ex trem i ty |ikˈstremitē ɪkˈstrɛmədi | ▶noun ( pl. extremities ) 1 the furthest point or limit of something: the peninsula's western extremity. • (extremities ) the hands and feet: tingling and numbness in the extremities. 2 the extreme degree or nature of something: the extremity of the violence concerns us. • a condition of extreme adversity or difficulty: the terror of an animal in extremity . ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French extremite or Latin extremitas, from extremus ‘utmost ’ (see extreme ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

extremity

extremity |ɪkˈstrɛmɪti, ɛk- | ▶noun ( pl. extremities ) 1 the furthest point or limit of something: the peninsula's western extremity. • (extremities ) the hands and feet: tingling and numbness in the extremities. 2 [ mass noun ] the degree to which something is extreme: the extremity of the violence concerns us. • a condition of extreme adversity: the terror of an animal in extremity . ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French extremite or Latin extremitas, from extremus ‘utmost ’ (see extreme ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

extremity

extremity noun 1 the eastern extremity: limit, end, edge, side, farthest point, boundary, border, frontier; perimeter, periphery, margin; literary bourn, marge. 2 she lost feeling in her extremities: fingers and toes, hands and feet, limbs. 3 the extremity of the violence: intensity, magnitude, acuteness, ferocity, vehemence, fierceness, violence, severity, seriousness, strength, power, powerfulness, vigor, force, forcefulness. 4 in extremity he will send for her: dire straits, trouble, difficulty, hard times, hardship, adversity, misfortune, distress; (a ) crisis, an emergency, (a ) disaster, (a ) catastrophe, calamity; a predicament, a plight, mess, a dilemma; informal a fix, a pickle, a jam, a spot, a bind, a hole, a sticky situation, hot water, deep water.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

extremity

extremity noun 1 the eastern extremity of the county: limit, end, edge, side, farthest point, boundary, border, frontier, boundary line, bound, bounding line, partition line, demarcation line, end point, cut-off point, termination; perimeter, circumference, outside, outline, confine, periphery, outskirts, margin, brink, rim, lip, fringe, verge, threshold, compass; literary bourn, marge, skirt; rare ambit. ANTONYMS middle. 2 (extremities ) she began to regain some feeling in her extremities: hands and feet, fingers and toes, limbs. 3 the extremity of the violence concerns us greatly: intensity, high degree, magnitude, acuteness, ferocity, vehemence, fierceness, violence, severity, seriousness, strength, power, powerfulness, potency, vigour, force, forcefulness, gravity, graveness, severeness, grievousness. 4 he has promised that in extremity he will send for her: dire straits, trouble, difficulty, hard times, hardship, adversity, misfortune, distress; crisis, emergency, disaster, catastrophe, calamity, cataclysm; predicament, plight, mess, dilemma; setback, reverse, reversal; destitution, indigence, exigency; informal fix, pickle, jam, spot, bind, stew, scrape, hole, sticky situation, hot water, deep water, hell, hell on earth; Brit. informal spot of bother.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

extremity

ex trem i ty /ɪkstréməti, eks- /名詞 複 -ties 1 〖-ties 〗手足, 四肢 ▸ the upper [lower ] extremities 上 [下 ]肢 2 C ｟かたく ｠先端, 末端 ; 果て ▸ at its southern extremity その南端に ▸ to the extremities of Siberia シベリアの果てまで 3 U C 極端, 極度 ▸ an extremity of pain [joy ]苦痛 [歓喜 ]の極み 4 U C 窮地, 窮境, 苦境 ▸ help A in A's extremity ひどく困っているA 〈人 〉を助ける ▸ be reduced [driven ] to the last extremity [extremities ]窮地に陥る 5 C 〖通例 -ties 〗極端な行為 [手段 ], 最後の手段 ▸ They were forced to the extremity of firing upon the mob .彼らは群衆に発砲するという極端な行動に出ざるをえなかった ▸ go [resort ] to extremities 極端な手段に訴える