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do-or-die
adjective as in last-ditch
Weak matches
- desperate
- eleventh-hour
- final
- last-chance
- last-minute
- last-resort
adjective as in unbending
Weak matches
- aloof
- distant
- dug in
- formal
- hard as nails
- hard-line
- hold one's ground
- hold the fort
- hold the line
- incompliant
- inelastic
- inexorable
- inflexible
- intractable
- locked-in
- obdurate
- relentless
- resolute
- set in stone
- severe
- single-minded
- standing one's ground
- standing pat
- sticking to one's guns
- stiff
- strict
- stubborn
- uncompromising
- unflexible
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
- uptight
noun as in competition
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Now they’re praying Game 6 starter Yoshi Yamamoto can repeat his Game 2 magic and force a do-or-die contest on Saturday.
“I don’t know if this is going to be a do-or-die issue,” she said.
Daniels doesn’t feel pressure; he’s laughing in the huddle in do-or-die moments.
"It is big. It's not quite do-or-die time but it's getting pretty close."
He says he felt it for his new Peacock thriller series, "Teacup," where he plays a complicated father and husband whose family is thrown into a terrifying do-or-die mystery.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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