emergency

Questions about emergency

What is another word for emergency?

It depends which emergency you mean. In the sense “a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action”, the synonyms are exigency, pinch. Across all 3 senses there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of emergency?

WordNet records no antonym for emergency. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Why are the synonyms for emergency split into groups?

Because emergency carries 3 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for emergency come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of emergency

• Full entry for emergencyAll 3 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for emergencyWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.