LIFE-THREATENING Synonyms

• as if dead

• (used as intensives) excessively

• causing or capable of causing death

• of an instrument of certain death

• extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom

• involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death

• exceedingly harmful

• (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect

• involving risk or danger

• fraught with danger

• dangerously unstable and unpredictable

• tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans

• death of a person

• a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)

• a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

• dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

• shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it

• carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• causing or marked by grief or anguish

• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

• shockingly brutal or cruel

• concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities

• completely lacking in playfulness

• of great consequence

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• appealing to the mind

• requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve

• intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

• very strong or vigorous

• severely simple

• unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• very bad in degree or extent