point of no return

Noun

Meaning

a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

rubicon crisis threshold climax culmination crux crunch climacteric watershed crossroads zero hour critical point due date PNR moment of truth

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Antonyms

return reaction retreat retrieval regression regress

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Hypernyms

line contrast demarcation dividing line

Examples

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. Dag Hammarskjöld

When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit. Dan Brown

In everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That's how we survive. Haruki Murakami

Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return. Newton Lee

You get a wonderful view from the point of no return. Terry Pratchett

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return. Hubert Selby Jr.

Close letter words and terms

point of interest point of intersection point of law point of observation point of order point of origin