nonsurvivable
Cannot be endured
Nonsurvivable describes conditions, injuries, or situations that cannot be survived.
The term appears most often in medical and military contexts: The trauma surgeon classified the wounds as nonsurvivable.
A nonsurvivable plane crash leaves no survivors.
The word states bluntly what fatal or lethal imply—there is no coming through.
Causing or capable of death
- mortalSubject to death
- deadlyAble to cause expiration
- terminalAt the endpoint
- unsurvivableImpossible to live through
killing · mortality · fatality · demise · perish · expiry · doom · extinction
Causing severe damage
- catastrophicCausing complete destruction
- cataclysmicViolently destructive in scale
- apocalypticPertaining to ultimate devastation
- ruinousCausing severe destruction
destructive · annihilating · obliterating · disintegrating · total · complete · absolute · collapse
At the endpoint
- inoperableCannot be repaired
- untreatableCannot be healed
- incurableCannot be healed
- end-stageFinal, irreversible phase
Incapable of producing results
- doomedDestined for destruction
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
- bleakDreary and without cheer
- grimHarsh and foreboding
dire · desperate · unwinnable · insurmountable · impossible · forlorn · untenable · despair
Certain to occur
- unavoidableImpossible to prevent
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
- certainFree from doubt
- assuredCertain or self-possessed
guaranteed · sealed · predetermined · fated · destined · trapped
lethal
Causing or capable of death
unsurvivable · killing · mortality · fatality · demise · perish · expiry · doom · extinction · annihilation
devastating
Causing severe damage
- catastrophicCausing complete destruction
- cataclysmicViolently destructive in scale
- apocalypticPertaining to ultimate devastation
ruinous · destructive · annihilating · obliterating · disintegrating · total · complete · absolute · collapse · devastation
terminal
At the endpoint
- inoperableCannot be repaired
- untreatableCannot be healed
- incurableCannot be healed
end-stage · palliative · hospice · prognosis · exsanguination
futile
Incapable of producing results
grim · dire · desperate · unwinnable · insurmountable · impossible · forlorn · untenable · despair · hopelessness
inevitable
Certain to occur
- unavoidableImpossible to prevent
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
- certainFree from doubt
assured · guaranteed · sealed · predetermined · fated · destined · trapped
nonsurvivablesurvivable
Capable of being outlasted
recoverable · nonfatal · nonlethal · non-fatal · curable
survive, survival, survivor, survivors, survivable, surviving, survived, survives, survivalist