in extremis as a adverb: - 1
in extremis
adverb
1 in extremis
adjective
Roget 360:
dead,
lifeless;
deceased,
demised,
departed,
defunct,
extinct;
late,
gone,
no more;
exanimate†,
inanimate;
out of the world,
taken off,
released;
departed this life
etc.
v.;
dead and gone;
dead as a doornail,
dead as a doorpost†,
dead as a mutton,
dead as a herring,
dead as nits;
launched into eternity,
gone to one's eternal reward,
gone to meet one's maker,
pushing up daisies,
gathered to one's fathers,
numbered with the dead.
dying
etc.
v.;
moribund,
morient†;
hippocratic;
in articulo,
in extremis;
in the jaws of death,
in the agony of death;
going off;
aux abois [Fr.];
one one's last legs,
on one's death bed;
at the point of death,
at death's door,
at the last gasp;
near one's end,
given over,
booked;
with one foot in the grave,
tottering on the brink of the grave.
stillborn;
mortuary;
deadly
etc.
(killing)
361.
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Roget 704:
difficult,
not easy,
hard,
tough;
troublesome,
toilsome,
irksome;
operose†,
laborious,
onerous,
arduous,
Herculean,
formidable;
sooner said than done;
more easily said than done,
easier said than done.
difficult to deal with,
hard to deal with;
ill-conditioned,
crabbed,
crabby;
not to be handled with kid gloves,
not made with rose water.
awkward,
unwieldy,
unmanageable;
intractable,
stubborn
etc.
(obstinate)
606;
perverse,
refractory,
plaguy†,
trying,
thorny,
rugged;
knotted,
knotty;
invious†;
pathless,
trackless;
labyrinthine
etc.
(convoluted)
248;
intricate,
complicated
etc.
(tangled)
59;
impracticable
etc.
(impossible)
471;
not feasible
etc.
470;
desperate
etc.
(hopeless)
859.
embarrassing,
perplexing
etc.
(uncertain)
475;
delicate,
ticklish,
critical;
beset with difficulties,
full of difficulties,
surrounded by difficulties,
entangled by difficulties,
encompassed with difficulties.
under a difficulty;
in a box;
in difficulty,
in hot water,
in the suds,
in a cleft stick,
in a fix,
in the wrong box,
in a scrape
etc.
n.,
in deep water,
in a fine pickle;
in extremis;
between two stools,
between Scylla and Charybdis;
surrounded by shoals,
surrounded by breakers,
surrounded by quicksands;
at cross purposes;
not out of the wood.
reduced to straits;
hard pressed,
sorely pressed;
run hard;
pinched,
put to it,
straitened;
hard up,
hard put to it,
hard set;
put to one's shifts;
puzzled,
at a loss,
etc.
(uncertain)
475;
at the end of one's tether,
at the end of one's rope,
at one's wit's end,
at a nonplus,
at a standstill;
graveled,
nonplused,
nonplussed,
stranded,
aground;
stuck fast,
set fast;
up a tree,
at bay,
aux abois [Fr.],
driven into a corner,
driven from pillar to post,
driven to extremity,
driven to one's wit's end,
driven to the wall;
au bout de son Latin;
out of one's depth;
thrown out.
accomplished with difficulty;
hard-fought,
hard-earned.
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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 ... show more.
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