in extremis
36 synonyms found
- between two fires
- cornered
- despaired of
- desperate
- done for
- endangered
- expiring
- facing death
- given up
- going
- hard pressed
- hard up
- hopeless
- imperiled
- in a predicament
- in articulo mortis
- in danger
- in desperate case
- in desperate straits
- in extremities
- in jeopardy
- incapable of life
- jeopardized
- low
- moribund
- near death
- nonviable
- on the spot
- pinched
- sinking
- slipping
- slipping away
- sorely pressed
- straitened
- threatened
- up against it
Definition
(adv) :
at the point of death