situation - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a job in an organization

Synonyms

• berth
• billet
• office
• place
• position
• post
• situation
• spot

More generic

• business
• job
• line
• line of work
• occupation

More specific

• academicianship
• accountantship
• admiralty
• ambassadorship
• apostleship
• apprenticeship
• associateship
• attorneyship
• bailiffship
• baronetage
• bishopry
• cadetship
• caliphate
• captaincy
• captainship
• cardinalate
• cardinalship
• chair
• chairmanship
• chancellorship
• chaplaincy
• chaplainship
• chieftaincy
• chieftainship
• clerkship
• commandership
• commandery
• comptrollership
• consulship
• controllership
• councillorship
• councilorship
• counsellorship
• counselorship
• curacy
• curatorship
• custodianship
• deanery
• deanship
• directorship
• discipleship
• editorship
• eldership
• emirate
• episcopate
• fatherhood
• feudal lordship
• foremanship
• generalcy
• generalship
• governorship
• headship
• hot seat
• incumbency
• inspectorship
• instructorship
• internship
• judgeship
• judicature
• khanate
• lectureship
• legateship
• legation
• legislatorship
• librarianship
• lieutenancy
• magistracy
• magistrature
• managership
• manhood
• marshalship
• mastership
• mayoralty
• messiahship
• moderatorship
• overlordship
• pastorate
• pastorship
• peasanthood
• plum
• praetorship
• precentorship
• preceptorship
• prefecture
• prelacy
• prelature
• premiership

Noun

physical position in relation to the surroundings

Synonyms

• site
• situation

More generic

• place
• position

More specific

• active site
• antigenic determinant
• close quarters
• determinant
• epitope
• locus
• locus of infection
• restriction site

Noun

a condition or position in which you find yourself

Synonyms

• position
• situation

More generic

• condition
• status

More specific

• place
• poverty trap
• shoes
• soup
• stymie
• stymy

Noun

the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time

Synonyms

• situation
• state of affairs

More generic

• state

More specific

• absurd
• acceptance
• ballgame
• challenge
• childlessness
• complication
• crowding
• disequilibrium
• element
• environment
• equilibrium
• exclusion
• fish bowl
• fishbowl
• goldfish bowl
• hotbed
• inclusion
• intestacy
• new ballgame
• picture
• prison
• prison house
• rejection
• scene
• size
• size of it
• square one
• status quo
• the absurd
• thing

Noun

a complex or critical or unusual difficulty

Synonyms

• situation

More generic

• difficulty

More specific

• Mexican standoff
• conflict of interest
• crisis
• crunch
• dead end
• deadlock
• embroilment
• hornet's nest
• hornets' nest
• hot potato
• how-d'ye-do
• how-do-you-do
• imbroglio
• impasse
• incubus
• nightmare
• no-win situation
• pass
• purgatory
• quicksand
• stalemate
• standstill
• strait
• straits
• swamp
• ticking bomb
• time bomb
• tinderbox
• urgency

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