Word Meanings - CRISIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Till some safe crisis authorize their skill.

Additional info about word: CRISIS

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. Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. Dryden. (more info) 1. 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. This hour's the very crisis of your fate. Dryden. The very times of crisis for the fate of the country. Brougham.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRISIS)

• Adventure
• Incident
• crisis
• chance
• hazard
• occurrence
• event
• enterprise
• casualty
• undertaking
• experiment
• venture
• trial
• romance
• Conjuncture
• Crisis
• turning-point
• contingency
• occasion
• opportunity
• exigency
• emergency
• Emergency
• conjunction
• pitch
• embarrassment
• strait
• necessity
• difficulty
• Exigency
• Urgency
• pressure
• conjuncture
• Head
• Top
• crown
• chief
• leader
• ruler
• mind
• source
• section
• division
• topic
• gathering
• culmination
• leadership
• guide
• commander
• acme
• summit

Related words: (words related to CRISIS)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• EVENT
  1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• OCCASIONALISM
  The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
• STRAIT
  A variant of Straight.
• CROWNLAND
  In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in