crisis
Meaning of crisis
- a time of intense difficulty or danger.
the current economic crisis
he goes to pieces in a crisis
the monarchy was in crisis
late Middle English (denoting the turning point of a disease): medical Latin, from Greek krisis ‘decision’, from krinein ‘decide’. The general sense ‘decisive point’ dates from the early 17th century.
Information about crisis
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CatalanHyphenation of crisis
cri-sis
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- crisis is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
crisis synonyms
Meaning an event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering; a disaster:
Meaning an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster:
Meaning a sudden violent political or social upheaval:
Meaning a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action:
Meaning a sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life:
Meaning a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation:
Meaning a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation:
Meaning a dirty or untidy state of things or of a place:
Meaning a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially ones that are equally undesirable:
Meaning a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation:
Meaning a reversal or check in progress:
Meaning a complete change of direction or action:
Meaning a change to an opposite direction, position, or course of action:
Meaning a violent or sudden change or disruption to something:
Meaning a play for theatre, radio, or television:
Meaning difficulty or problems:
Meaning severe suffering or privation:
Meaning a difficult or unpleasant situation:
Meaning a condition of extreme adversity:
Meaning extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain:
Meaning a situation that is difficult or dangerous:
Meaning a difficult or awkward situation from which it is hard to extricate oneself; a predicament:
Meaning a difficult situation:
Meaning an instance of a thing seizing or becoming stuck:
Meaning a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan:
Meaning an embarrassing or difficult predicament caused by one's own unwise behaviour:
Meaning a problematical situation:
Meaning an awkward situation:
Meaning a place regarded in various religions as a spiritual realm of evil and suffering, often traditionally depicted as a place of perpetual fire beneath the earth where the wicked are punished after death:
Meaning irritating inconvenience:
Meaning pressure or tension exerted on a material object:
Translation of crisis
- French: conjoncture, crise
- German: Krise
- Spanish: coyuntura, crisis
Words that rhyme with crisis
Isis, isis, decisis, brindisis, arthrocleisis, arthroereisis, colpocleisis, corocleisis, enterocleisis, hysterocleisis, iridencleisis, neurosarcocleisis, odontoseisis, otocleisis, proctencleisis, pylorocleisis, rhinocleisis, splenocleisis, Surgisis, bronchophthisis, cardioschisis, celioschisis, celoschisis, cheiloschisis, craniorachischisis, craniorhachischisis, cranioschisis, cystophthisis, cystoschisis, diaschisis, enterophthisis, erythrocytoschisis, erythrophthisis, gastrophthisis, gastroschisis, gnathoschisis, hemirachischisis, hemophthisis, hisis, holorachischisis, hypogastroschisis, iridoschisis, karyoschisis, laryngophthisis, limophthisis, lithophthisis, meloschisis, merorachischisis, mesorachischisis, mitoschisis