Adjective

(en adjective)

(physics) evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.

(of a substance, informal) explosive.

(of a price etc) variable or erratic.

(of a person) quick to become angry or violent.

fickle.

temporary or ephemeral.

(of a situation) potentially violent.

(computing, of a variable) having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.

(computing, of memory) whose content is lost when the computer is powered down

(obsolete) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.

Adjective

(en-adj)

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

In the greatest or highest degree; intense.

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Excessive, or far beyond the norm.

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Drastic, or of great severity.

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

(archaic) Ultimate, final or last.

the extreme hour of life