The greatest or utmost point, degree, or condition.
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.[…]But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.
Extremely.
In the empty and extreme cold theatre.
Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French extreme, from Latin extrēmus, the superlative of exter.
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Excessive, or far beyond the norm.
His extreme love of model trains showed in the rails that criscrossed his entire home.
One of the last moments of life.