crisis
noun
[ ˈkrʌɪsɪs ]
• a time of intense difficulty or danger.
• "the current economic crisis"
Similar:
catastrophe,
calamity,
cataclysm,
emergency,
disaster,
predicament,
plight,
mess,
dilemma,
quandary,
setback,
reverse,
reversal,
upheaval,
drama,
trouble,
dire straits,
hard times,
hardship,
adversity,
extremity,
distress,
difficulty,
fix,
pickle,
jam,
stew,
scrape,
bind,
hole,
sticky situation,
hot water,
hell,
hell on earth,
hassle,
stress,
car crash,
spot of bother,
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting the turning point of a disease): medical Latin, from Greek krisis ‘decision’, from krinein ‘decide’. The general sense ‘decisive point’ dates from the early 17th century.
