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| 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: | catastrophe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calamity; unhappy conclusion |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad news*, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, contretemps, crash, culmination, curtains*, debacle, denouement, desolation, devastation, disaster, emergency, end, failure, fatality, fiasco, finale, grief, hardship, havoc, ill, infliction, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, scourge, stroke, termination, tragedy, trial, trouble, upshot, waterloo*, wreck, alluvion, meltdown, the worst |
| Antonyms: | benefit, blessing, favor, good luck, happiness, miracle, success, wonder, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | 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: | crunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crucial point |
| Synonyms: | crisis, critical point, crux, difficulty, emergency, moment of truth*, problem, test, trouble, hour of decision, trying time |
| Antonyms: | trivia |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | danger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hazard, troublesome situation |
| Synonyms: | crisis, dynamite, emergency, exigency, exposure, insecurity, instability, jeopardy, menace, peril, pitfall, possibility, precipice, probability, risk, storm, threat, uncertainty, venture, clouds, double trouble, endangerment, hot potato, precariousness, risky business, slipperiness, thin ice, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | care, guard, preservation, safety, security, carefulness |
| Main Entry: | disaster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accident, trouble |
| Synonyms: | act of God*, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad news*, bale, bane, blight, blow, bust, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, collision, crash, debacle, defeat, depression, emergency, exigency, failure, fall, fiasco, flood, flop, grief, harm, hazard, holocaust, hot water, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, rock, rough, ruin, setback, slip, stroke, tragedy, undoing, upset, washout*, woe, fell stroke, hard luck, ill luck, ruination, the worst |
| Antonyms: | blessing, good luck, miracle, prosperity, success, triumph, win, wonder, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emergency room |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | medical emergencies area |
| Synonyms: | emergency, intensive care unit, ER, ICU, critical care facility, emergency clinic, medical crisis unit, trauma center, triage room |
| 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: | muddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confused state |
| Synonyms: | ataxia, awkwardness, botch, chaos, clutter, complexity, complication, confusion, daze, difficulty, dilemma, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganization, emergency, encumbrance, fog, foul-up*, hash, haze, intricacy, involvement, jumble, mess, mess and a half, mix-up*, muss*, perplexity, plight, predicament, quandary, rat's nest, screw-up, shambles*, snarl, struggle, tangle, trouble |
| Antonyms: | enlightenment, order, organization |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | occurrence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happening, development |
| Synonyms: | accident, adventure, affair, appearance, circumstance, condition, contingency, emergency, episode, event, exigency, existence, incidence, incident, instance, juncture, manifestation, occasion, pass, piece, proceeding, routine, scene, situation, state, thing*, transaction, materialization, transpiration |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | patient |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person being treated for medical problem |
| Synonyms: | case, convalescent, emergency, inmate, invalid, subject, victim, outpatient, shut-in, sick person, sufferer |
| Antonyms: | doctor |
| Main Entry: | predicament |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficult situation |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22*, asperity, bad news*, bind*, circumstance, clutch, condition, corner*, crisis, deadlock, dilemma, drag*, emergency, exigency, fix*, hang-up*, hardship, hole, hot water, imbroglio, impasse, jam*, juncture, lot, mess*, muddle, pass, pickle*, pinch, plight, position, posture, puzzle, quagmire, quandary, rigor, scrape*, spot*, state*, strait, vicissitude, deep water, large order, perplexity, rough go, soup*, tall order ticklish spot tight situation trouble* |
| Antonyms: | fix, solution, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | protective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | guarding, securing |
| Synonyms: | careful, conservative, covering, defensive, emergency, guardian, jealous, possessive, preservative, vigilant, warm, watchful, conservational, custodial, insulating, protecting, safeguarding, sheltering, shielding |
| Antonyms: | harmful, hurtful, injurious, threatening, attacking |
| Main Entry: | stopgap |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | temporarily helping |
| Synonyms: | emergency, expedient, impromptu, improvised, makeshift, practical, provisional, rough-and-ready, substitute, temporary, Band-Aid, rough-and-tumble, temp, throwaway |
| Antonyms: | completed, finished, permanent, solved |
| 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: | 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
| Main Entry: | exigency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, constraint, contingency, crisis, crossroad, demand, 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, exigence, imperativeness, needfulness, pressingness |
| Main Entry: | matter of life and death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | urgent matter |
| Synonyms: | emergency, exigency, urgency, case of emergency, case of need, grave affair, matter of necessity, necessitude, vitalness |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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