A pressing or urgent situation.

Roget 865: desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need, exigency.    mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection; propensity etc. 820; willingness etc. 602; liking, love, fondness, relish.    longing, hankering, inkling; solicitude, anxiety; yearning, coveting; aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition; eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement [Fr.], breathless impatience, overanxiety; impetuosity, etc. 825.    appetite, appetition^†, appetence^†, appetency^†; sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist; thirst, thirstiness; drouth, mouthwatering; itch, itching; prurience, cacoethes [Lat.], cupidity, lust, concupiscence.    edge of appetite, edge of hunger; torment of Tantalus; sweet tooth, lickerish tooth^†; itching palm; longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye.    [excessive desire for money] greed etc. 817.1. voracity etc. (gluttony) 957.    passion, rage, furore^†, mania, manie^†; inextinguishable desire; dipsomania, kleptomania.    [Person who desires] lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant, solicitant, candidate, applicant, supplicant; cormorant etc. 957.    [Object of desire] desideratum; want etc. (requirement) 630; a consummation devoutly to be wished;" attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol; whim, whimsy, whimsey^†; maggot; hobby, hobby-horse.    Fortunatus's cap; wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 640: insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence etc. (impotence) 158; deficiency etc. (incompleteness) 53; imperfection etc. 651; shortcoming etc. 304; paucity; stint; scantiness etc. (smallness) 32; none to spare, bare subsistence.    scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition, starvation, famine, drought.    dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half rations; banyan day.    emptiness, poorness etc. adj.; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb tide; low water; a beggarly account of empty boxes" [Romeo and Juliet]; indigence etc. 804; insolvency etc. (nonpayment) 808.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: noodsituatie, noodtoestand

A sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action.

synoniemen: emergency, pinch.

Roget 8: circumstance, situation, phase, position, posture, attitude, place, point; terms; regime; footing, standing, status.    occasion, juncture, conjunctive; contingency etc. (event) 151.    predicament; emergence, emergency; exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push; occurrence; turning point.    bearings, how the land lies.    surroundings, context, environment 232; location 184.    contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475; causation 153, attribution 155.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 704: difficulty; hardness etc. adj.; impracticability etc. (impossibility) 471; tough work, hard work, uphill work; hard task, Herculean task, Augean task^†; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor, tough job, teaser, rasper^†, dead lift.    dilemma, embarrassment; deadlock; perplexity etc. (uncertainty) 475; intricacy; entanglement, complexity etc. 59; cross fire; awkwardness, delicacy, ticklish card to play, knot, Gordian knot, dignus vindice nodus [Lat.], net, meshes, maze; coil etc. (convolution) 248; crooked path; involvement.    nice point, delicate point, subtle point, knotty point; vexed question, vexata quaestio [Lat.], poser; puzzle etc. (riddle) 533; paradox; hard nut to crack, nut to crack; bone to pick, crux, pons asinorum [Lat.], where the shoe pinches.    nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt; critical situation, crisis; trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble.    scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado; false position.    set fast, stand, standstill; deadlock, dead set.    fix, horns of a dilemma, cul de sac [Fr.]; hitch; stumbling block etc. (hindrance) 706.    [difficult person] crab; curmudgeon.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 630: requirement, need, wants, necessities; necessaries, necessaries of life; stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity; case of need, case of life or death.    needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency.    requisition etc. (request) 765, (exaction) 741; run upon; demand, call for.    charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept.    desideratum etc. (desire) 865; want etc. (deficiency) 640.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: nood, noodgeval