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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change |
| Synonyms: | about-face, alteration, alternation, diversity, flip-flop, fluctuation, innovation, mid-course correction, mutability, mutation, novelty, permutation, progression, reversal, revolution, shift, sport, switch, switchover, transposition, turnaround, uncertainty, ups and downs, variation, variety |
| Antonyms: | stability, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | difficulty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental burden |
| Synonyms: | ado, aggravation, annoyance, anxiety, bafflement, bother, care, charge, complication, crisis, depression, discouragement, distress, embarrassment, emergency, exigency, frustration, grievance, hangup, harassment, imbroglio, inconvenience, irritation, jam, maze, mess, millstone, misery, oppression, perplexity, pickle, pinch, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, ramification, responsibility, scrape*, setback, strain, strait, stress, strife, struggle, to-do, trouble, vicissitude, weight, worry |
| Antonyms: | calmness, contentment, peace, pleasure, satisfaction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | distress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hardship, adversity |
| Synonyms: | bad luck, bummer, calamity, can of worms, catastrophe, crunch, destitution, difficulty, disaster, downer, drag*, exigency, hard knocks, hard time, holy mess, hot water, indigence, jam*, misfortune, need, pickle, pinch*, poverty, privation, rigor, rotten luck, scrape*, straits, throe, ticklish spot, tough break, tough luck, trial, trouble, unholy mess, vicissitude, want |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, miracle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | innovation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, novelty |
| Synonyms: | addition, alteration, contraption, cutting edge*, departure, deviation, introduction, last word, latest thing, leading edge, modernism, modernization, modification, mutation, newness, notion, permutation, shift, variation, vicissitude, wrinkle |
| Antonyms: | custom, habit, old, old hat, rut, tradition |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mutation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | metamorphosis |
| Synonyms: | alteration, anomaly, change, deviant, deviation, evolution, innovation, modification, mutant, novelty, permutation, transfiguration, transformation, variation, vicissitude |
| Antonyms: | inaction, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | novelty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | newness, originality |
| Synonyms: | change, crazy*, creation, dernier cri, freshness, innovation, last word, modernity, mutation, newfangled contraption, oddball, oddity, original, origination, permutation, recentness, sport*, strangeness, surprise, unfamiliarity, uniqueness, vicissitude, weird* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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