Related Searches
Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | possible time of need |
| Synonyms: | adversity, bad patch, trough |
| Main Entry: | hardship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal burden |
| Synonyms: | Herculean task, accident, adversity, affliction, asperity, austerity, calamity, case, catastrophe, curse, danger, destitution, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, distress, drudgery, fatigue, grief, grievance, hard knocks, hazard, injury, labor, mischance, misery, misfortune, need, oppression, peril, persecution, privation, rainy day, rigor, rotten luck, sorrow, suffering, toil, torment, tough break, tough luck, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, uphill battle, vicissitude, want, worry |
| Antonyms: | advantage, assistance, benefit, blessing, ease, favor, gain, good, profit |
| Main Entry: | means |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wealth, resources |
| Synonyms: | ace in the hole, affluence, assets, backing, bankroll, budget, bundle, capital, dough, estate, finances, fortune, funds, holdings, income, intangibles, kitty, money, nest egg, nut*, pocket, possessions, property, purse, rainy day, reserves, revenue, riches, savings, securities, sock, stake, stuff, substance, ways and means, wherewithal |
| Antonyms: | paucity, poorness, shame |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | panic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden drop in value in financial markets |
| Synonyms: | Black Monday, bust, crash, depression, rainy day, slump |
| Main Entry: | tribulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain, unhappiness |
| Synonyms: | adversity, affliction, albatross, bad luck, blow*, bummer, burden, care, cross to bear, crucible, curse, difficulty, distress, double whammy, downer, drag*, grief, hard knock, hard time, headache, heartache*, misery, misfortune, oppression, ordeal, persecution, rainy day, reverse, sorrow, suffering, trial, trouble, vexation, visitation, woe, worry, wretchedness, wronging |
| Antonyms: | calm, comfort, happiness, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | storm cloud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dark cloud |
| Synonyms: | hard times, heavy weather, rain cloud, rainy day |
| Main Entry: | depression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economic decline |
| Synonyms: | bad times, bankruptcy, bear market, big trouble, bottom out, bust, crash, crisis, deflation, dislocation, downturn, drop, failure, hard times, inactivity, inflation, overproduction, panic, paralysis, rainy days, recession, retrenchment, sag, slide, slowness, slump, stagflation, stagnation, unemployment |
| Antonyms: | recovery, surge |
| Main Entry: | recession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reversal of action; reduction of business activity |
| Synonyms: | bad times, bankruptcy, big trouble, bottom-out, bust, collapse, decline, deflation, depression, downturn, hard times, inflation, rainy days, shakeout, slide, slump, stagnation, unemployment |
| Notes: | a choir entering a church is a procession; leaving is a recession |
| Antonyms: | advance, inflation |
| Main Entry: | slump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decline, failure |
| Synonyms: | bad period, bad times, blight, blue devils, blue funk, bottom, bust, collapse, crash, depreciation, depression, descent, dip, downer, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, drop, dumps, fall, falling-off, funk, hard times, letdown, low, rainy days, recession, reverse, rut, sag, slide, slip, stagnation, the skids, trough |
| Antonyms: | blessing, boon, increase, success |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
