Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The most extreme or furthest point of something.

    Extremität, äußerstes Ende

    крайkraj, оконе́чностьokonéčnostʹ, коне́цkonéc

    the outermost or farthest region or point

  2. (countable, uncountable)An extreme measure.

    Äußerste, Extremste

    кра́йностьkrájnostʹ

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

  3. (countable, uncountable)A hand or foot.

    Guillain–Barré syndrome causes one to not be able to move one’s extremities.

    Extremität

    коне́чностьkonéčnostʹ

  4. (countable, uncountable)A limb (“major appendage of a human or animal such as an arm, leg, or wing”).

Examples

5 sentences
  1. He was driven to the last extremity.

  2. I can't feel my extremities.

    deIch kann meine Gliedmaßen nicht mehr spüren. — Waldelfe

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  3. In an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche, and finding his progress arrested by the rock, stood stupidly bewildered.

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  4. The human body consists of a head, neck, and torso, and upper and lower extremities.

    ruТело человека состоит из головы, шеи, туловища, верхних и нижних конечностей. — al_ex_an_der

    deDer menschliche Körper besteht aus dem Kopf, dem Hals, dem Rumpf sowie den oberen und unteren Extremitäten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. "Yea, alive, indeed, / alive through all extremities of woe. / Doubt not, thou see'st the truth, no shape of empty show."

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
furthest point:
extreme measure:
hand or foot:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
furthest point:
extreme measure:

Origin

From Middle English extremite, from Old French extremité, from Latin extrēmitātem (“extrem

From Middle English extremite, from Old French extremité, from Latin extrēmitātem (“extremity; border, perimeter; ending”), from extrēmīs (“furthest, extreme”) + -itās (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being); see extreme. Extrēmīs is derived from exter (“external, outward”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”)) + -issimus (superlative suffix) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-is- (comparative suffix) + *-(t)m̥mo- (absolutive case suffix)).

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Forms

plural: extremities
Singularextremity
Pluralextremities

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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