imperiled
In grave danger
Imperiled means placed in danger or at risk of harm: The flood imperiled thousands of homes.
The word appears often in conservation contexts—an imperiled species—and in dramatic descriptions of threats to people, institutions, or abstract things: Democracy itself was imperiled.
Also spelled imperilled.
Expressed intent to harm
- at-riskSubject to potential harm
- menacedThreatened with harm
- jeopardyRisk of harm
- hazardSource of potential harm
doom · brink · precarious · vulnerable · unsafe · exposed · unprotected · defenseless
Serious sudden danger
- disasterSudden ruinous event
- catastropheDevastating, large-scale misfortune
- calamitySevere misfortune or disaster
- collapseSudden structural failure
turmoil · upheaval · plight · predicament · distress · desperate · dire · critical
Out in open
- susceptibleEasily influenced or harmed
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- helplessUnable to act independently
- unshieldedLacking protective barrier
undefended · weak · frail · delicate · sensitive · open · assailable · unguarded
Dangerously insecure
- unstableProne to sudden change
- shakyTrembling or unstable
- wobblyTending to teeter
- teeteringUnstably balanced, nearly falling
tottering · unsteady · fragile · tenuous · volatile · uncertain · insecure · dicey
Finest taxonomic rank
- habitatOrganism's natural environment
- wildlifeUndomesticated natural organisms
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
poaching · overhunting · overfishing · vanishing · disappearing · declining · survival · population
threatened
Expressed intent to harm
hazard · doom · brink · precarious · vulnerable · unsafe · exposed · unprotected · defenseless · dire
emergency
Serious sudden danger
- disasterSudden ruinous event
- catastropheDevastating, large-scale misfortune
- calamitySevere misfortune or disaster
collapse · turmoil · upheaval · plight · predicament · distress · desperate · dire · critical · urgent
exposed
Out in open
- susceptibleEasily influenced or harmed
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- helplessUnable to act independently
unshielded · undefended · weak · frail · delicate · sensitive · open · assailable · unguarded · powerless
precarious
Dangerously insecure
teetering · tottering · unsteady · fragile · tenuous · volatile · uncertain · insecure · dicey · risky
species
Finest taxonomic rank
- habitatOrganism's natural environment
- wildlifeUndomesticated natural organisms
- biodiversityRange of life forms
conservation · poaching · overhunting · overfishing · vanishing · disappearing · declining · survival · population · ecosystem
- Danger Levelsdanger, high risk, high-risk, low risk, critical
- survival statesalive, dead, dying, injured, safe
- vulnerabilityvulnerability, vulnerable, defenselessness, defenseless, helplessness
- wildlife statusextinct, vulnerable, threatened, rare species, extirpated
- conservationconservation, wildlife, habitat, sanctuary, preservation
imperiledsafe
Free from peril
secure · protected · out of danger · sheltered · safeguarded
imperiledinvulnerable
Immune to all harm
invincible · indestructible · impregnable · insuperable · unstoppable
imperil, imperilment, imperiling, imperils, imperilled, imperilling