Crisis

What do we mean by crisis?

A crucial or decisive point or situation, especially a difficult or unstable situation involving an impending change. noun

A sudden change in the course of a disease or fever, toward either improvement or deterioration. noun

An emotionally stressful event or traumatic change in a person's life. noun

A point in a story or drama when a conflict reaches its highest tension and must be resolved. noun

A vitally important or decisive state of things; the point of culmination; a turning-point; the point at which a change must come, either for the better or the worse, or from one state of things to another: as, a ministerial crisis; a financial crisis; a crisis in a person's mental condition. noun

In medicine, the change of a disease which indicates the nature of its termination; that change which prognosticates recovery or death. The term is sometimes also used to denote the symptoms accompanying the condition. noun

A paroxysm of acute localized pain or of functional disturbance of some organ accompanying tabes dorsalis or other degenerative affection of the spinal cord. noun

The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point. noun

That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. noun

A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point. noun

An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change. noun

A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which the patient is expected to recover or die. noun

A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life. noun

A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved. noun

An unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty noun

A crucial stage or turning point in the course of something noun

A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.

An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.

A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.

A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.

A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

Words that are spelled similarly to crisis:
crisis, crises, crisps, criss, crasis, crysis, clisis, crinis, crisil, crisi, crisic.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word crisis:
infinite, crises, recession, unemployment, resolved, intervention, superman, debt, collapse, currency, banking, confidence, economy, banks, financial.

Words that rhyme with crisis:
isis, lysis, spicous, entice us, mai sus, sacrifice us, suffice us, y sus.

Adjectives that are often used to describe crisis:
economic, financial, political, present, asian, major, serious, cuban, national, current, international, severe, fiscal, acute, constitutional, environmental, personal, spiritual, immediate, ecological, hypertensive, deep, grave, hostage, moral, recent, impending, global, internal, emotional, urban, midlife, domestic, life, commercial, profound, greatest, cultural, agricultural, european, mexican, revolutionary, monetary, east, terrible, pre, worst, contemporary, ministerial, dangerous, adrenal, post, sudden, called, iranian, supreme, prolonged, structural, nuclear, korean, agrarian, existential, ongoing, regional, diplomatic, sickle, bosnian, czech, polish, humanitarian, minor.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective crisis:
intervention, management, stage, prone, oriented, theory, period, worker, rituals, based, ridden, situations, counseling, years, the, communications, focused, prevention, regionalism, communication, driven, paradigm, politics, crises, state, induced, centers, hit, resolution, led, avoidance, era, affected, procedures, cop, levels, managing, team, response, planning, diplomacy, bargaining, filled, leadership, theology.

Consonant match to crisis:
crasis, crassus, crispus, crucis, cros s, cross s, cross us.

Words that sound like crisis:
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