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crossroads - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: crossroad
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an intersecting road
Synonyms: intersection, byroad
Main Entry: contingency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chance happening; possibility
Synonyms: accident, break, chance, crisis, crossroads, emergency, event, eventuality, exigency, fortuity, happening, if it's cool, incident, juncture, likelihood, occasion, odds, opportunity, pass, pinch, predicament, probability, strait, turning point, uncertainty, zero hour*
Antonyms: certainty, definiteness, reality, surety, truth
Main Entry: critical mass
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: crucial point
Synonyms: climax, crisis, critical point, crossroads*, crossroads, crunch time, defining moment, emergency, high noon*, high noon, moment of truth, point of no return, turning point, zero hour, crisis point, critical juncture, critical stage, crucial moment, decisive moment, do or die time, irreversible momentum, pivotal point, sink or swim time, the Rubicon
Main Entry: hamlet
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: small village
Synonyms: community, crossroads, district, suburb, small town
Main Entry: parting
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: goodbye, separation
Synonyms: adieu, break, breaking, breakup, crossroads*, departure, detachment, divergence, division, farewell, partition, rift, rupture, split, bisection, going, leave-taking, on the rocks, severance, split-up, valediction
Antonyms: greeting, hello, introduction
Main Entry: turning point
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: critical juncture
Synonyms: axis, change, climax, contingency, crisis, critical mass, critical point, crossing, crossroads, crunch, crux, culmination, cusp, defining moment, development, emergency, exigency, high noon, hinge, juncture, moment of truth*, moment of truth, nexus, pass, peak, pinch, pivot, point of no return, shift, strait, transition, twist, zero hour*, zero hour, climacteric, critical moment, critical period, crucial moment, crucial occurrence, crucial period, decisive moment, kairotic moment, peripeteia, pivotal moment, race against time, rising action, turn of the tide, when push comes to shove
Main Entry: village
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: small town
Synonyms: center, crossroads, hamlet, suburb
Main Entry: junction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: connection
Synonyms: alliance, annexation, articulation, assemblage, attachment, bond, coalition, coherence, combination, combine, concatenation, concourse, confluence, consolidation, convergence, crossing, crossroads, dovetail, elbow, gathering, gore, hinge, intersection, joint, juncture, knee, link, linking, meeting, node, pivot, reunion, seam, splice, terminal, union, weld, collocation, concursion, conjugation, coupling, hookup, interface, joining, miter, mortise, plug-in, tie-in, tie-up
Notes: junction means the place where two or more things come together while juncture means an event that occurs at a critical time or point in time when a critical decision must be made
Main Entry: point of no return
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: crucial moment
Synonyms: climax, crossroads, crunch, defining moment, moment of truth, turning point, Rubicon, decisive moment, match point, terminus, when push comes to shove
Main Entry: junction/juncture
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: link, connection
Synonyms: alliance, annexation, articulation, assemblage, attachment, bond, coalition, coherence, combination, combine, concatenation, concourse, confluence, consolidation, convergence, crossing, crossroads, dovetail, elbow, gathering, gore, hinge, intersection, joint, knee, linking, meeting, node, pivot, reunion, seam, splice, terminal, union, weld, collocation, concursion, conjugation, coupling, hookup, interface, joining, miter, mortise, plug-in, tie-in, tie-up
Main Entry: center
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: point of attraction for visitors, shoppers, travelers
Synonyms: capital, city, club, concourse, crossroads, focal point, focus, heart, hub, mall, market, marketplace, mart, meeting place, metropolis, nerve center, plaza, shopping center, station, town, polestar, social center, trading center
Main Entry: pass
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: predicament
Synonyms: condition, contingency, crisis, crossroads*, emergency, exigency, juncture, pinch, plight, situation, stage, state, strait, turning point*, zero hour*
Main Entry: crisis
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: critical situation
Synonyms: catastrophe, change, climax, confrontation, contingency, corner, crossroad, crunch*, crux, culmination, deadlock, dilemma, dire straits, disaster, embarrassment, emergency, entanglement, exigency, extremity, height, imbroglio, impasse, juncture, mess, moment of truth*, necessity, pass, pickle*, pinch*, plight, point of no return*, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, situation, stew, strait, trauma, trial, trouble, turning point, urgency, big trouble, climacteric, hot potato, hour of decision, perplexity
Antonyms: calm, peace
Main Entry: crossing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pathway to traverse larger path
Synonyms: bridge, crossroad, exchange, grating, interchange, intersection, junction, loop, network, overpass, passage, screen, traverse, cloverleaf, crosswalk, crossway, decussation, grade crossing, gridiron, traversal, underpass
Main Entry: emergency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: crisis, danger
Synonyms: accident, climax, clutch*, compulsion, crossroad, crunch*, depression, difficulty, distress, exigency, extremity, fix, hole, impasse, juncture, misadventure, necessity, pass, pinch*, plight, predicament, pressure, push, quandary, scrape, squeeze, strait, tension, turning point, urgency, vicissitude, zero hour*, meltdown
Antonyms: calm, peace
Main Entry: exigency/exigence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: difficulty; demand
Synonyms: acuteness, constraint, contingency, crisis, crossroad, dilemma, distress, duress, emergency, extremity, fix, hardship, jam, juncture, necessity, need, pass, pickle*, pinch, plight, predicament, pressure, quandary, requirement, scrape*, stress, turning point*, urgency, vicissitude, want, wont, zero hour*, criticalness, demandingness, imperativeness, needfulness, pressingness
Antonyms: ease, easiness, ordinariness
Main Entry: juncture
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: turning point
Synonyms: choice, circumstance, condition, contingency, crisis, crossroad, crux, emergency, exigency, instant, moment, occasion, pass, pinch, plight, point, position, posture, predicament, quandary, state, status, strait, time, zero hour*, meeting point
Main Entry: road
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: path upon which travel occurs
Synonyms: alley, artery, asphalt, avenue, boulevard, concrete, course, crossroad, direction, drag*, drive, expressway, highway, lane, line, main drag*, parking lot*, passage, pavement, pike, route, street, subway, terrace, thoroughfare, track, trail, turnpike, viaduct, way, back street, byway, cobblestone, dragway, parkway, pathway, roadway, throughway, thruway
Main Entry: strait
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: crisis, difficulty
Synonyms: bewilderment, bind, bottleneck*, contingency, crossroad, dilemma, distress, embarrassment, emergency, exigency, extremity, hardship, hole*, mess*, pass, pinch*, plight, predicament, rigor, squeeze*, turning point*, vicissitude, zero hour*, choke point, mystification, perplexity
Antonyms: advantage, solution, success
Main Entry: zero hour
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: moment of truth
Synonyms: climax, contingency, countdown, crisis, crossroad, crossroads, crunch time, deadline, emergency, exigency, juncture, moment of truth*, pinch, strait, target, turning point*, turning point, A-day, D-day, D-day, H-hour, appointed hour, appointed hour, crisis point, jumping-off point, pivotal moment, start time, target day, the time, vital moment
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