Extreme and Near

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Extreme adjective - Most distant from a center.

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

Near adjective - Being the less far of two.

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Extreme is an antonym for near.

Nearby Words: nearly, nearby, nearness

She never technically fell to begin with, but in Elfen Lied Nana wasn't anywhere near as bloodthirsty as other Diclonii, only snapping occasionally under extreme duress.

Source: Redemption Earns Life
Even more extreme when Hei gets a bit upset near an Amplifier Artifact, which makes the entire neighborhood glow.

Source: Power Glows
In Suikoden, the home base of the characters is always somewhere near water — it's actually an enormous ship, in the most extreme case.

Source: Shout Out / Video Games

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