Climax, adversity, rubicon, and climacteric are all synonyms for crisis. Stability and resolution are these antonyms of crisis. And here are another 55 synonyms for crisis.
Crisis Synonyms
1. cataclysm
- Adversity
- Bind
- Calamity
- Car crash
- Cataclysm
- Catastrophe
- Difficulty
- Dilemma
- Dire straits
- Disaster
- Distress
- Drama
- Emergency
- Extremity
- Fix
- Hard times
- Hardship
- Hassle
- Hell on earth
- Hell
- Hole
- Hot water
- Jam
- Mess
- Pickle
- Plight
- Predicament
- Quandary
- Reversal
- Reverse
- Scrape
- Setback
- Stew
- Sticky situation
- Stress
- Trouble
- Upheaval
- Spot of bother
2. crossroads
- Rubicon
- Climacteric
- Climax
- Critical period
- Critical point
- Crossroads
- Crux
- Culmination
- Decisive point
- Head
- Height
- Moment of truth
- Point of no return
- Turning point
- Zero hour
- Crunch