life-or-death

1. 1.

   vitally important

   “a life-and-death struggle”

   Synonymslife-and-death

   Similarcrucial

Questions about life-or-death

What does life-or-death mean?

life-or-death means "vitally important".

How many syllables are in life-or-death?

life-or-death has 5 syllables and divides as li-fe--or--de-ath under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for life-or-death?

Close synonyms include life-and-death. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.