crises

Meaning of crises

plural noun
  1. 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 crises

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of crises is: crise.
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Hyphenation of crises

crises

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • crises is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

crises synonyms

Meaning an event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering; a disaster:

catastrophe

Meaning an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster:

calamity

Meaning a sudden violent political or social upheaval:

cataclysm

Meaning a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action:

emergency

Meaning a sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life:

disaster

Meaning a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation:

predicament

Meaning a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation:

plight

Meaning a dirty or untidy state of things or of a place:

mess

Meaning a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially ones that are equally undesirable:

dilemma

Meaning a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation:

quandary

Meaning a reversal or check in progress:

setback

Meaning a complete change of direction or action:

reverse

Meaning a change to an opposite direction, position, or course of action:

reversal

Meaning a violent or sudden change or disruption to something:

upheaval

Meaning a play for theatre, radio, or television:

drama

Meaning difficulty or problems:

trouble

Meaning severe suffering or privation:

hardship

Meaning a difficult or unpleasant situation:

adversity

Meaning a condition of extreme adversity:

extremity

Meaning extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain:

distress

Meaning a situation that is difficult or dangerous:

difficulty

Meaning a difficult or awkward situation from which it is hard to extricate oneself; a predicament:

fix

Meaning a difficult situation:

pickle

Meaning an instance of a thing seizing or becoming stuck:

jam

Meaning a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan:

stew

Meaning an embarrassing or difficult predicament caused by one's own unwise behaviour:

scrape

Meaning a problematical situation:

bind

Meaning an awkward situation:

hole

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:

hell

Meaning irritating inconvenience:

hassle

Meaning pressure or tension exerted on a material object:

stress

Translation of crises

Anagrams of crises

Cressi, scries

Words that rhyme with crises

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