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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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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