critical point

Noun

Meaning

a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

juncture crossroads rubicon head doomsday high noon crisis emergency climax milestone pivot singularity culmination crux crunch
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Antonyms

minor point additional issue secondary issue additional problem insignificant concern minor issue
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Hypernyms

crisis

Hyponyms

criticality

Examples

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government. William O. Douglas

In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point. David Lynch

I could hear the forces massing. I was very keen to make sure that I got our big reforms done before those forces could reach a critical point. Julia Gillard

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point. Elizabeth Peters

It wouldn't take much – one big scientific idea, or artistic idea, one good book, one good painting – who knows – we are at a critical point where the ideas are coming thicker and faster and stranger and stranger than they ever were before. Alan Moore

Giving teenagers some inspiration, a single role model and an opportunity to be part of something bigger at a critical point in their lives can be the difference between being a productive or being a destructive member of society. Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Close letter words and terms

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