extreme vs stratospheric

extreme

adj
  • In the greatest or highest degree; intense. 

  • Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost. 

  • Drastic, or of great severity. 

  • Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment. 

  • Excessive, or far beyond the norm. 

noun
  • A drastic expedient. 

  • The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition. 

  • Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6. 

  • Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale. 

stratospheric

adj
  • Unusually or unreasonably high; astronomical. 

  • Of, relating to, or occurring in the stratosphere (“the region of the uppermost atmosphere”). 

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