| Main Entry: | cause célèbre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | controversial issue |
Synonyms: |
bone of contention, celebrated case, controversy, debate, grist for the gossip mill, hot potato, moot point, political football, scandal, war of words |
| Main Entry: | crisis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | critical situation |
Synonyms: |
big trouble, catastrophe, change, climacteric, climax, confrontation, contingency, corner, crossroad, crunch, crux, culmination, deadlock, dilemma, dire straits, disaster, embarrassment, emergency, entanglement, exigency, extremity, height, hot potato, hour of decision, imbroglio, impasse, juncture, mess, moment of truth, necessity, pass, perplexity, pickle, pinch*, plight, point of no return, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, situation, stew, strait, trauma, trial, trouble, turning point, urgency |
Antonyms: |
calm, peace |
| Main Entry: | danger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hazard, troublesome situation |
Synonyms: |
clouds, crisis, double trouble, dynamite, emergency, endangerment, exigency, exposure, hot potato, insecurity, instability, jeopardy, menace, peril, pitfall, possibility, precariousness, precipice, probability, risk, risky business, slipperiness, storm, thin ice, threat, uncertainty, venture, vulnerability |
Antonyms: |
care, carefulness, guard, preservation, safety, security |
| Main Entry: | hazard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger |
Synonyms: |
double trouble, dynamite, endangerment, hot potato, imperilment, jeopardy, peril, risk, risky business, thin ice, threat |
Antonyms: |
protection, safeguard, safety |
| Main Entry: | cause celebre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebrated case |
Synonyms: |
affair, controversial case, controversial issue, controversy, debate, fuss, grist for the gossip mill, hot potato, matter of the moment, political football, rumor, scandal, talk of the town, topic of the day, uproar, war of words |
| Main Entry: | imperilment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger |
Synonyms: |
clouds, crisis, double trouble, dynamite, emergency, endangerment, exigency, exposure, hazard, hot potato, insecurity, instability, jeopardy, menace, peril, pitfall, possibility, precariousness, precipice, probability, risk, risky business, slipperiness, storm, thin ice, threat, uncertainty, venture, vulnerability |
| Concept: | Danger. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; contingent subservience |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard, venture, precariousness, slipperiness; instability; defenselessness, exposure (liability); vulnerability; vulnerable point, heel of Achilles; forlorn hope (hopelessness)., [Dangerous course] leap in the dark (rashness) [more]; road to ruin, faciles descensus Averni [Vergil], hairbreadth escape., cause for alarm; source of danger., [Approach of danger] rock ahead, breakers ahead; storm brewing; clouds in the horizon, clouds gathering; warning; alarm., [Sense of danger] apprehension [more].
-verbs
be in danger; be exposed to danger, run into danger, incur danger, encounter danger; run a risk; lay oneself open to (liability); lean on a broken reed, trust to a broken reed; feel the ground sliding from under one, have to run for it; have the chances against one, have the odds against one, face long odds; be in deep trouble, be between a rock and a hard place., hang by a thread, totter; sleep on a volcano, stand on a volcano; sit on a barrel of gunpowder, live in a glass house., bring in danger, place in danger, put in danger, place in jeopardy, put in jeopardy; endanger, expose to danger, imperil; jeopard, jeopardize; compromise; sail too near the wind (rash)., adventure, risk, hazard, venture, stake, set at hazard; run the gauntlet (dare); engage in a forlorn hope., threaten danger; run one hard; lay a trap for (deceive).
-adjectives
in danger; endangered; fraught with danger; dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous; unsafe, unprotected (safe, protect [more]); insecure, . untrustworthy; built upon.sand, on a sandy basis; wildcat., defenseless, fenceless, guardless, harborless; unshielded; vulnerable, expugnable, exposed; open to (liable)., aux abois, at bay; on the wrong side of the wall, on a lee shore, on the rocks., at stake, in question; precarious, critical, ticklish; slippery, slippy; hanging by a thread; with a halter round one's neck; between the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires; on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a precipice, on the edge of a volcano; in the lion's den, on slippery ground, under fire; not out of the wood(s).
-phrases
incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim; nam tua res agitur paries dum proximus ardet.
|
Antonyms: |
safety |
| Browse Concept Index » | |