'in extremis' definitions:
Definition of 'in extremis'
(from WordNet)
adverb
At the point of death
Synonyms of 'in extremis'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bad,
- between two fires,
- cornered,
- despaired of,
- desperate,
- done for,
- dying,
- 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,
- terminal,
- threatened,
- up against it