Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. At the point of death.
- adv. In grave or extreme circumstances.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In extremity. Used specifically
Wiktionary
- At the point of death.
- In desperate circumstances.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. at the point of death
Etymologies
- From Latin. (Wiktionary)
- Latin in extrēmīs : in, in + extrēmīs, ablative pl. of extrēmus, extreme. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But no dialogue between man and wife in extremis could be more pathetic than that in the scene where shipwreck is imminent.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘in extremis’.
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life, death, rebirth
vale of tears, aborning, transmigration, reincarnate, nativity, nascence, metempsychosis, palingenesis, againrising, psychopannychism, thnetopsychism, shuffle off this ... and 104 more...
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Thresholds
we are all just passing through.
(boundaries, portals and liminal spaces/times)cockcrow, interface, thin line, portal, postern, littoral, interstice, port, membrane, skin, crepuscule, dawn and 304 more...
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miserable circumstances
describing living arrangements from the less-than-stellar, to the sordid
burrow, garret, ghetto, hovel, hut, lean-to, cavern, shack, shanty, shed, slum, tenement and 59 more...
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Last Words
Endings, results, and pinnacles. The ideal here is to somehow imply the paradoxical concept of "after-endings".
consequence, aftermath, finality, outcome, postmundane, endgame, redound, cloture, bourne, meridian, memento mori, psychopomp and 72 more...
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quotato's Words
prospicience, appoggiatura, actually, thrum, nisus, univocal, eschatology, concupiscible, penury, psychedelic, vapid, braggadocio and 107 more...
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corpus medicorum
words describing medical conditions
decubitus, kernicterus, foetor, paroxysm, tarsorrhaphy, balanitis, porphyria, arcus senilis, coitus interruptus, in extremis, la belle indiffer..., xanthelasma and 184 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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whichbe At the point of death. (From WordCraft) May 20, 2008