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extremity
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of EXTREMITY
1
a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action <made offers of aid to the refugees, and of asylum in extremity>
Synonyms boiling point, breaking point, clutch, conjuncture, crisis, crossroad(s), crunch, crunch time, Dunkirk, exigency, extremity, flash point, head, juncture, tinderbox, zero hour
Related Words contingency, possibility; climax, turning point; happening, landmark, milestone; condition, pass, situation, strait; deadlock, impasse, stalemate; corner, fix, hole, hot water, jam, last ditch, pinch, predicament, scrape, spot; eleventh hour, last minute
2
the most extreme or advanced point <at its extremity the fever was actually life-threatening>
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