turning point

Main Entry:
turning point []
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: critical juncture
Synonyms: axis, change, climacteric, climax, contingency, crisis, critical mass, critical moment, critical period, critical point, crossing, crossroads, crucial moment, crucial occurrence, crucial period, crunch, crux, culmination, cusp, decisive moment, defining moment, development, emergency, exigency, high noon, hinge, juncture, kairotic moment, moment of truth, moment of truth, nexus, pass, peak, peripeteia, pinch, pivot, pivotal moment, point of no return, race against time, rising action, shift, strait, transition, turn of the tide, twist, when push comes to shove, zero hour, zero hour
Main Entry: climax
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: peak, culmination
Synonyms: acme, apex, apogee, ascendancy, capsheaf, capstone, climacteric, crest, crowning point, extremity, head, height, high spot, highlight, intensification, limit, maximum, meridian, ne plus ultra, orgasm, payoff, pinnacle, pitch, summit, tiptop, top, turning point, utmost, zenith
Antonyms: anticlimax, cliffhanger
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
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: critical mass
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: crucial point
Synonyms: climax, crisis, crisis point, critical juncture, critical point, critical stage, crossroads, crossroads, crucial moment, crunch time, decisive moment, defining moment, do or die time, emergency, high noon, high noon, irreversible momentum, moment of truth, pivotal point, point of no return, sink or swim time, the Rubicon, turning point, zero hour
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, meltdown, misadventure, necessity, pass, pinch*, plight, predicament, pressure, push, quandary, scrape, squeeze, strait, tension, turning point, urgency, vicissitude, zero hour
Antonyms: calm, peace
Main Entry: exigency/exigence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: difficulty; demand
Synonyms: acuteness, constraint, contingency, crisis, criticalness, crossroad, demandingness, dilemma, distress, duress, emergency, extremity, fix, hardship, imperativeness, jam, juncture, necessity, need, needfulness, pass, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, pressingness, pressure, quandary, requirement, scrape*, stress, turning point*, urgency, vicissitude, want, wont, zero hour
Antonyms: ease, easiness, ordinariness
Main Entry: flash point
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: crucial moment
Synonyms: breaking point, crisis, critical moment, hour of decision, moment of truth, turning point, zero hour
Main Entry: milestone
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: achievement
Synonyms: anniversary, breakthrough, discovery, event, landmark, milepost, occasion, turning point, waypost
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