Extreme and Mild

Extreme

Extreme adjective - Most distant from a center.

Mild is an antonym for extreme in topics: great, faraway, very great, beyond reason and convention.

Mild

Mild adjective - Moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme.
Usage example: mild criticism

Extreme is an antonym for mild.

Nearby Words: mildness, mildly

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / Forbrydelsen Spice Up the Subtitles: The official English subtitles for the first season translated practically every Danish profanity as some form of "fuck" regardless of how mild or extreme it was, leading to complaints from Danish speakers.
  • Series / The Mary Tyler Moore Show Georgette's ditziness was rather mild, but it was emphasized by her extreme sweetness and naivete.
  • In a less extreme example, the AIs that use ancillaries are hinted to have a mild version of this.
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