Extremism

Definition

extreme /Çk'stri:m/ adj ၁။ (က) ထူးကဲေသာ။ suffering from extreme anxiety ❍ a period of extreme coolness in diplomatic relations ❍ show extreme flexibility. (ခ) လြန္ကဲေသာ။ ျပင္းထန္ေသာ။ take extreme measures ❍ The child will be removed from its parents only in extreme cases. ❍ He promised he would not resort to anything as extreme as plastic surgery. (ဂ) ( often derog ) အစြန္း ေရာက္ေသာ။ တစ္ဖက္စြန္း ေရာက္ေသာ။ an extreme nationalist organization ❍ hold extreme left-wing/ right-wing views ❍ His ideas are too extreme for me. ၂။ ေဝးေခါင္ကြာလွမ္းေသာ။ အစြန္အဖ်ား။ in the extreme north of a country ❍ at the extreme edge of the forest. n [C usu pl ] ၁။ အစြန္းေရာက္မႈ။ တစ္ဖက္စြန္း။ dealing with her extremes of mood ❍ The truth lies somewhere between these two extremes. ❍ She was once terribly shy but now she's gone to the opposite/other extreme. ၂။ လြန္ကဲမႈ။ ျပင္းထန္မႈ။ He could not tolerate the extremes of heat in the desert. ❏ extremely adv (usu with adjs and advs ) အလြန္အမင္း။ အလြန္႔အလြန္။ extremely complicated/ dangerous/ useful ❍ That's extremely unlikely ❍ I'm extremely sorry for the delay. ❍ He behaved extremely badly. ❏ extremism n [U] အစြန္းေရာက္ဝါဒ။ the dangers of political extremism. ❏ extremist n ( usu derog ) အစြန္းေရာက္ဝါဒီ။ assassinated by extremists ❍ extremist policies. ❏ extremity /Çk'stremǝti/ n ( fml ) ၁။ (က) [C] အစြန္အဖ်ား။ အစြန္း။ at the camp's northern extremity. (ခ) extremities [pl] ေျခဖ်ားလက္ဖ်ား စသည္။ Cold affects the extremities first. ၂။ [C, U] လြန္ကဲျခင္း။ reach an extremity/ the extremities of pain ❍ observe how people react in extremity or under pressure. ❏ go etc to extremes [ IDM ] အစြန္းေရာက္သည္၊ ေရာက္ေစ သည္။ In the jungle they were driven to extremes in order to survive. ❏ in the extreme [ IDM ] ( fml ) လြန္လြန္ကဲကဲ။ ျပင္းျပင္း ထန္ထန္။ I found his remarks about the cooking offensive in the extreme.

Examples

1. Extreme poverty/hardship
2. Use extreme caution when driving in wet conditions.
3. Will the clothing give protection against extreme cold?
4. Extreme right-wing views
5. Their demands were seen as being too extreme.
6. It seemed a bit extreme to call the police.
7. [an extreme case] : In extreme cases
8. your membership may be cancelled.
9. [an extreme example (of something)] : This city’s problems offer an extreme example of the difficulties faced by the country as a whole.
10. The police were accused of using extreme violence against the protesters.
11. [the extreme end/edge/tip] : The wooden buildings are situated at the extreme tip of the island.
12. [the extreme left/right/north/south] : The minister is on the extreme left of the picture.