Definition for Strait:

• Narrow; confined; not broad; close; difficult; rigorous; avaricious.

Synonyms for Strait:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • strait.

• n.

  •
  • ground,
  • Narrows,
  • field,
  • canal,
  • open water,
  • groundwater.
  •arm (noun)
  • sub divisions,
  • sub-division,
  • sub-divisions,
  • sub division.
  •body of water (noun)
  • cove,
  • ocean,
  • bayou,
  • pool,
  • estuary,
  • tank,
  • sound,
  • ditch,
  • puddle,
  • pond,
  • gulf,
  • reservoir,
  • lagoon,
  • well,
  • lake.
  •channel (noun)
  • tideways.
  •contingency (noun)
  • Opportunities,
  • Uncertainties,
  • Exigencies,
  • likelihood,
  • if it's cool,
  • cross-roads.
  •crisis (noun)
  • exigency,
  • predicament,
  • crux,
  • climax,
  • key point,
  • crucial point.
  •crisis, difficulty (noun)
  • hardship,
  • rigor,
  • perplexity,
  • crossroad,
  • pinch,
  • mystification,
  • dilemma,
  • choke point,
  • pass,
  • distress,
  • plight,
  • bind,
  • bewilderment,
  • vicissitude,
  • extremity,
  • squeeze,
  • bottleneck,
  • hole,
  • mess.
  •difficulty (noun)
  • painfulness,
  • hangup,
  • tribulation,
  • to do,
  • arduousness,
  • bafflement,
  • laboriousness,
  • millstone,
  • TODO,
  • strenuousness.
  •dilemma (noun)
  • catch-22's,
  • double binds,
  • catch22,
  • tight corners,
  • catch 22,
  • catch22's,
  • catch 22's.
  •embarrassment (noun)
  • mis take,
  • self consciousnesses,
  • dis-composure,
  • self consciousness,
  • mis-takes,
  • un easiness,
  • in-discretion,
  • mis-take,
  • dis composures,
  • un-eases,
  • un-easinesses,
  • awkward situations,
  • in-discretions,
  • selfconsciousnesses,
  • dis composure,
  • disconcertions,
  • egg face,
  • un eases,
  • un-ease,
  • in discretions,
  • un-easiness,
  • mis takes,
  • un ease,
  • in discretion,
  • self-consciousnesses,
  • selfconsciousness,
  • dis-composures.
  •emergency (noun)
  • mis adventures,
  • mis-adventure,
  • mis-adventures,
  • mis adventure.
  •pinch (noun)
  • tight squeeze,
  • tight spot.
  •position (noun)
  • dis-positions,
  • how things stack ups,
  • size it,
  • dis position,
  • ballgames,
  • like it i,
  • like is,
  • the size it,
  • dis positions,
  • like i,
  • dis-position.
  •predicament (noun)
  • hang up,
  • rough go,
  • predicaments,
  • tall order ticklish spot tight situation trouble,
  • large order,
  • soups,
  • soup.
  •quandary (noun)
  • be-wilderments,
  • be wilderment,
  • up a trees,
  • up tree,
  • be-wilderment,
  • double troubles,
  • be wilderments,
  • up trees.
  •riddle (noun)
  • tough propositions,
  • closed books,
  • sixtyfour dollar question,
  • mind boggler,
  • dis tractions,
  • mind bogglers,
  • brain twisters,
  • dis-tractions,
  • dis traction,
  • mind-bogglers,
  • dis-traction,
  • re-buses,
  • sixty-four dollar questions,
  • mindbogglers,
  • knotty questions,
  • brain-twisters,
  • brain twister,
  • sixty four dollar questions,
  • braintwisters,
  • sixtyfour dollar questions,
  • re buses,
  • tough nut crack,
  • sixty four dollar question.
  •strait (noun)
  • straits.
  •turning point (noun)
  • peripeteias,
  • crucial occurrences,
  • when push comes shove,
  • crucial moments,
  • rising actions,
  • kairotic moments,
  • race against times,
  • turn tide,
  • decisive moments,
  • pivotal moments,
  • turning-point,
  • turn of tide,
  • crucial periods.
  •zero hour (noun)
  • hhours,
  • ddays,
  • a day,
  • start times,
  • a days,
  • jumpingoff point,
  • d days,
  • jumpingoff points,
  • h-hours,
  • dday,
  • hhour,
  • crisis points,
  • d day,
  • h hours,
  • vital moments,
  • the times,
  • zero-hour,
  • jumping off point,
  • d-days,
  • target days,
  • appointed hours,
  • h hour,
  • jumping-off points,
  • jumping off points.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • riddle.

Paraphrases for Strait:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    cross-strait, cross-straits.
  • Proper noun, singular
    straits, cross-strait, cross-straits.
  • Noun, plural
    straits.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    cross-strait.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    compatriots, detroit.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    detroit.

Antonyms for Strait:

• n.

  • crisis, difficulty
    comfort, solution, good fortune, success, advantage, benefit, blessing, closure, miracle, ease.
  • Other antonyms:
    peace, well-being, security, wide, alleviation, assuagement, broad, consolation, solace, relief.

Strait Sentence Examples:

• The last strait in which Riddell found himself was worse than any that had gone before.

• Into this there penetrated a long strait, beyond which he could see broad waters and distant shores - a bay within a bay, approached by this strait.

Homophones for Strait:

• sisterhood, saturday, strad, straw hat, strate, sea trout, shattered, sightread, southward, siddhartha, stair-rod, starwort, steward, shuttered, start, sight-read, sagittariidae, start out, stairhead, saturated, setterwort, starry-eyed, sequestered, storeyed, storied, skid road, Sed Rate, siderite, Streight, straight, sea starwort, stirred, stride, starred, scattered, strut, sideward, striate, steroid, stewart, struthio, sturdy, street, side road, stuart, side yard, Satyridae, stouthearted, sweetheart, saturate, sequestrate.

Hypernym for Strait:

• n.

  • object
    narrow.

Hyponym for Strait:

• n.

  • object
    channel.