life-or-death

Speech parts

1. life-or-death - Adjective

2. life-or-death - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

vitally important

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

life or death

Synonyms

life-and-death cardinal central important required significant material necessary needed active capital heavy basic constitutive critical
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Antonyms

needless little auxiliary minor inferior nominal
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Examples

The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit. Ed Sheeran

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories. Rose Tremain

Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction. Denis Leary

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship. Kate Adie

Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled "crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. Maxwell Maltz

a life-and-death struggle Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Life-like cellular automaton life-limiting life-of-man life-or-death game life-preserver life-saving