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Noun
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A state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort
misery
sadness
distress
unhappiness
sorrow
despondency
anguish
depression
despair
woe
melancholy
dejection
pain
desolation
agony
grief
torment
gloom
wretchedness
gloominess
heartache
suffering
torture
affliction
blues
worry
heartbreak
anxiety
angst
doldrums
dolor
dumps
hurt
tribulation
dolour
melancholia
discomfort
moroseness
hardship
excruciation
travail
worriment
horror
pang
ache
rack
hurting
throe
heartbrokenness
passion
twinge
headache
low spirits
more ❯
Noun
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The characteristic of being needy
neediness
destitution
want
need
poverty
impoverishment
penury
indigence
pauperism
beggary
impecuniousness
privation
impecuniosity
destituteness
poorness
necessity
penuriousness
pennilessness
distress
hardship
insolvency
bankruptcy
deprivation
scarcity
lack
shortage
deficiency
famine
paucity
insufficiency
inadequacy
debt
meagerness
depletion
starvation
difficulty
necessitousness
underdevelopment
abjection
dearth
barrenness
deficit
aridity
emptiness
exiguity
pinch
pass
reduction
vacancy
more ❯
Noun
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A problematical situation
plight
predicament
dilemma
difficulty
quandary
pickle
fix
mess
jam
trouble
bind
hole
impasse
scrape
corner
spot
perplexity
extremity
pinch
situation
condition
state
case
circumstances
tight spot
tight corner
dire straits
difficult situation
unfortunate situation
sad state
tight situation
sorry condition
bad news
double trouble
more ❯
Noun
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Difficult or tangled situations
problems
holes
jams
cruxes
knots
mires
pitfalls
quagmires
spots
tangles
toughies
misadventures
mishaps
deep water
matters
muddles
cases
corners
facers
fixes
flies in the ointment
Gordian knots
gremlins
hiccups
hornets' nests
how-do-you-dos
katzenjammers
mix-ups
puzzlements
stumbling blocks
tight spots
nodi
probs
rubs
matter
misadventure
jam
puzzlement
Noun
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A narrow part of a strait, river, or current
narrows
channel
sound
passage
strait
gulf
neck
waterway
sea passage
inlet
arm
stretch of water
fjord
creek
firth
bay
branch
estuary
voe
canal
arm of the sea
route
cove
bight
loch
entrance
fiord
embayment
ingress
rivulet
stream
brook
tributary
sea loch
narrow body of water
Noun
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An event or situation that causes pain or hardship
travail
trouble
adversity
misfortune
calamity
tribulation
trial
hassle
disaster
hardship
catastrophe
ordeal
accident
mischance
blow
cataclysm
debacle
hitch
misadventure
mishap
mishappening
setback
snag
struggle
tragedy
tumult
unpleasantness
privation
dire straits
bad luck
bad break
more ❯
Noun
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Plural for used in reference to a situation characterized by a specified degree of trouble or difficulty
difficulty
crises
distress
emergencies
holes
messes
passes
dilemmas
embarrassment
hardship
plights
predicaments
trouble
uphills
extremities
perplexity
pretties
bewilderments
binds
bottlenecks
contingency
crossroads
deep water
exigencies
hot water
mystification
pinches
rigoursUK
rigorUS
squeezes
vicissitudes
turning points
zero hours
more ❯
Noun
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Plural for a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water
channels
narrows
sound
inlets
necks
kyles
canals
passages
waterways
arms
voes
creeks
estuaries
firths
gulfs
branches
fjords
bays
routes
tributaries
bights
embayments
entrance
rivulets
coves
ingresses
streams
sea lochs
brooks
lochs
fiords
“They glided over the narrow strait of turbulent ocean water that made the island look like it had been cut in half with a steak knife.”
Noun
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Plural for a broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inwards
bays
inlets
fjords
creeks
firths
coves
estuaries
bights
gulfs
arms
lochs
embayments
sound
fiords
bayous
narrows
rias
entrance
ingresses
basins
harborsUS
harboursUK
loughs
anchorages
mouths
indentation
lagoons
havens
sea lochs
fleets
slews
voes
sloughs
passages
deltas
canals
armlets
friths
retreats
Noun
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Plural for an event or discovery representing an important stage or juncture
turning points
crises
crossroads
climaxes
watersheds
landmarks
junctures
exigencies
emergencies
climacterics
corners
milestones
cruxes
culmination
crossings
passes
mileposts
cusps
changes
nexuses
development
peaks
peripeteias
shift
transition
moments of truth
zero hours
crunch time
defining moments
critical points
high noons
critical periods
points of no return
critical mass
races against time
rising actions
Noun
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Plural for a main road in a town
thoroughfares
roads
streets
ways
avenues
roadways
boulevards
arteries
highways
expressways
freeways
turnpikes
high roads
pikes
autoroutes
broadways
clearways
main roads
motorways
parkways
arterials
autostradas
carriageways
crossways
drag
drives
passes
routes
rows
throughways
thruways
trace
A roads
arterial roads
dual carriageways
interstates
passageways
superhighways
trunk roads
autobahns
causeways
channels
lanes
paths
waterways
main drags
access roads
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