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extremity 音標拼音: [ɪkstr'ɛməti] n. 極端,極點,困境,絕境,臨死 極端,極點,困境,絕境,臨死 extremity極限 extremity*極限 extremity n 1: an external body part that projects from the body; " it is important to keep the extremities warm" [ synonym: { extremity}, { appendage}, { member}] 2: an extreme condition or state ( especially of adversity or disease) 3: the greatest or utmost degree; " the extremity of despair" 4: the outermost or farthest region or point 5: that part of a limb that is farthest from the torsoExtremity \ Ex* trem" i* ty\, n.; pl. { Extremities}. [ L. extremitas: cf. F. extr[' e] mit[' e].] 1. The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country. [ 1913 Webster] They sent fleets . . . to the extremities of Ethiopia. -- Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Zo[" o] l.) One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form. " The extremity of bodily pain." -- Ray. [ 1913 Webster] 4. The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity. [ 1913 Webster] Divers evils and extremities that follow upon such a compulsion shall here be set in view. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Upon mere extremity he summoned this last Parliament. -- Milton. Syn: Verge; border; extreme; end; termination. [ 1913 Webster] 339 Moby Thesaurus words for " extremity": Thule, Ultima Thule, abandon, abstract, aching heart, acme, acuteness, agony, agony of mind, all, anguish, animality, apex, apogee, arch, arms, atrocity, bale, barbarity, bitter end, bitterness, bleeding heart, blind alley, bloodlust, border, border line, bottom dollar, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, boundlessness, bounds, bourn, box, break boundary, breakoff point, broken heart, brow, brutality, butt, butt end, cap, ceiling, circumscription, clear, clear away, climacteric, climax, cloud nine, clubfoot, clutch, compass, confine, convergence of events, corner, crest, crisis, critical juncture, critical point, crossroads, crown, crucial period, crunch, crushing, cul- de- sac, culmen, culmination, cutoff, cutoff point, dead end, dead- end street, deadline, deadlock, death agonies, death groan, death rattle, death struggle, death throes, deathbed, deathwatch, delimitation, deliver, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, destructiveness, detach, determinant, difference, differentiate, digit, disburden, discern, discriminate, disembarrass, disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, disinvolve, distinguish, division line, dog, dying breath, edge, egregiousness, emergency, end, enormousness, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exigency, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extreme limit, extremes, extremism, extremities, extricate, fabulousness, fag end, farthest bound, feet, ferociousness, fetlock, fierceness, final extremity, fingers, finish, floor, foot, force, forefoot, forepaw, free, frontier, furiousness, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, grief, halt, hands, harefoot, harshness, heartache, heaven, heavens, heavy heart, hedge, heel, height, high noon, high- water mark, highest degree, highest pitch, highest point, hinge, hole, hoof, hyperbole, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, impasse, impetuosity, inclemency, incontinence, infelicity, inhumanity, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, instep, intemperance, intemperateness, intensity, interface, jumping- off place, last agony, last breath, last gasp, legs, liberate, limbs, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, limits, line, line of demarcation, low- water mark, lower limit, malignity, march, margin, mark, maximum, melancholia, melancholy, mercilessness, meridian, mete, mindlessness, misery, monstrousness, moribundity, mountaintop, murderousness, ne plus ultra, nib, nimiety, no place higher, noon, nth degree, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, pad, pass, pastern, patte, paw, peak, pedal extremity, pedes, periphery, pes, pied, pinch, pinnacle, pitch, pitilessness, point, pole, prostration, pug, push, radicalism, release, rescue, resolve, ridge, rigor, roughness, rub, sadness, savagery, separate, seventh heaven, sever, severalize, severity, sharpness, sky, sole, spire, splayfoot, stalemate, stand, standstill, start, starting line, starting point, stop, strait, stub, stump, suicidal despair, summit, tag, tag end, tail, tail end, target date, term, terminal date, termination, terminus, terrorism, the whole, threshold, throes of death, time allotment, tip, tip- top, toe, toes, too much, too- muchness, tootsy, top, trotter, trotters, turn, turning point, unconscionableness, undueness, ungentleness, ungula, unravel, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness, unscramble, untangle, untie, untwine, upmost, upper extremity, upper limit, uppermost, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost, vandalism, vehemence, venom, vertex, very top, viciousness, violence, virulence, wings, woe, wretchedness, zenith
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