"Extreme adjectives" are adjectives which imply that their meaning is "extremely something". For example "freezing" means extremely cold.
Normal adjectives are "gradable", this means we can say: a little cold, very cold, extremely cold... On the contrary, extreme adjectives are not gradable because the word "freezing" already means "extremely cold". However they can be used with words such as absolutely, completely, utterly.
Extreme adjectives don't have a comparative nor superlative form.
Now match the adjectives with their extreme adjectives.
tired starving
small fantastic
angry freezing
good astounding
surprising exhausted
hot furious
dirty ancient
clean huge
cold hilarious
pretty tiny
ugly gorgeous
funny boiling
old filthy
big hideous
hungry spotless
ANSWER KEY
tired exhausted
small tiny
angry furious
good fantastic
surprising astounding
hot boiling
dirty filthy
clean spotless
cold freezing
pretty gorgeous
ugly hideous
funny hilarious
old ancient
big huge
hungry starving
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