291 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ stɹˈe͡ɪts], [ stɹˈe‍ɪts], [ s_t_ɹ_ˈeɪ_t_s]

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Similar words for straits:

• bodies of water (noun)
• crises (noun)
• dire straits (noun)
• distress (noun)
• event (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• plight (noun)
• poverty (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

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Synonyms for Straits:

• n.

  • bodies of water (noun)
  • Estuaries,
  • coves,
  • dikes,
  • wells,
  • sounds,
  • Ditches,
  • pools,
  • lagoons,
  • gulfs,
  • oceans,
  • ponds,
  • lakes,
  • tanks,
  • puddles,
  • reservoirs,
  • Bays,
  • fiords,
  • Bayous,
  • inlets.
  • crises (noun)
  • key points,
  • predicaments,
  • critical moments,
  • Exigencies,
  • last minutes,
  • Emergencies,
  • turning points,
  • Crises,
  • crucial points,
  • Cruxes,
  • climaxes.
  • dire straits (noun)
  • desperate straits.
  • distress (noun)
  • rotten lucks,
  • tough breaks,
  • dis tress,
  • holy messes,
  • ticklish spots,
  • dis-tresses,
  • tough lucks,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • mis fortune,
  • mis fortunes,
  • dis-tress,
  • unholy messes,
  • can worms,
  • dis tresses.
  • event (noun)
  • pass,
  • head,
  • straits.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • juncture,
  • poverty,
  • tight situation,
  • dire straits,
  • unholy mess,
  • hard times,
  • plight,
  • holy mess,
  • occasion,
  • ticklish spot,
  • tight situations,
  • rotten luck,
  • vicissitude,
  • tough break,
  • tough luck,
  • hard time,
  • double trouble,
  • distress,
  • situation.
  • plight (noun)
  • double troubles.
  • poverty (noun)
  • underdevelopment,
  • abjection,
  • penuriousness,
  • Necessitousness,
  • exiguity,
  • under-development,
  • famine,
  • vacancy,
  • pennilessness,
  • impoverishment.

• Other synonyms:

  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • bayou,
  • principal,
  • predicament,
  • header,
  • brain,
  • arm,
  • jam,
  • Unprosperousness,
  • exigency,
  • deprivation,
  • quicksand,
  • flip,
  • roadstead,
  • hardship,
  • harbor,
  • road,
  • laissez passer,
  • calamity,
  • necessity,
  • adversity,
  • nonplussed,
  • poorness,
  • straitened,
  • dilemmas,
  • cracks,
  • Euripus,
  • graveled,
  • embarrassment,
  • hot water,
  • fling,
  • bight,
  • hard up,
  • messes,
  • capitulum,
  • straights,
  • catastrophe,
  • pauperism,
  • thins,
  • fountainhead,
  • stew,
  • channels,
  • constraint,
  • headway,
  • crunch,
  • head teacher,
  • whirls,
  • problem,
  • load,
  • nous,
  • nonplused,
  • promontory,
  • mountain pass,
  • notches,
  • tightrope,
  • qualifying,
  • offers,
  • hell to pay,
  • question,
  • destitution,
  • passing play,
  • burden,
  • thrown out,
  • disaster,
  • state of affairs,
  • walk,
  • aux abois,
  • press,
  • want,
  • tight spot,
  • pickle,
  • tight squeeze,
  • head word,
  • Kyle,
  • morass,
  • mind,
  • at a nonplus,
  • penury,
  • uncertain,
  • at a standstill,
  • pressure,
  • strait,
  • heading,
  • hardships,
  • fiord,
  • puzzled,
  • difficulty,
  • inlet,
  • weight,
  • BOCA,
  • tosses,
  • needs,
  • psyche,
  • gut,
  • sound,
  • stress,
  • mix,
  • extremity,
  • bye,
  • canals,
  • crack,
  • imbroglio,
  • isthmus,
  • pretty pass,
  • offer,
  • aground,
  • drumhead,
  • goes,
  • bind,
  • strain,
  • guts,
  • Quandaries,
  • fjord,
  • walks,
  • school principal,
  • caput,
  • flings,
  • reach,
  • stuck fast,
  • pressures,
  • beggary,
  • embarrassments,
  • pinches,
  • trouble,
  • slough,
  • trial,
  • swamp,
  • narrow means,
  • tragedy,
  • insolvency,
  • NARROW SEAS,
  • emergency,
  • demands,
  • oppression,
  • troubles,
  • closes,
  • mouth,
  • misfortune,
  • top dog,
  • go,
  • hobble,
  • headland,
  • whirl,
  • notch,
  • Narrows,
  • byes,
  • chief,
  • pinched,
  • channel,
  • how-do-you-do,
  • pinch,
  • roads,
  • urgency,
  • mess,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • exacts,
  • armlet,
  • FLIPS,
  • complication,
  • heads,
  • albatross,
  • bay,
  • loch,
  • voluntary poverty,
  • vexation,
  • impecuniousness,
  • passing game,
  • Perplexities,
  • gulf,
  • belt,
  • passports,
  • base on balls,
  • affliction,
  • scrape,
  • creek,
  • Necessities,
  • point,
  • needfulness,
  • firth,
  • spot,
  • low water,
  • broken fortune,
  • toss,
  • Difficulties,
  • sticky wicket,
  • Extremities,
  • tights,
  • indigence,
  • passes,
  • straitened circumstances,
  • rubs,
  • at a loss,
  • estuary,
  • jams,
  • clutch,
  • squeeze,
  • headspring,
  • liberty chit,
  • at bay,
  • up a tree,
  • harbour,
  • passing,
  • stranded,
  • need,
  • distresses,
  • stresses,
  • quagmire,
  • passport,
  • Neediness,
  • privation,
  • Frith,
  • cove,
  • forefront,
  • narrow.

How to use "Straits" in context?

Paraphrases for Straits:

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    strait.
  • Noun, plural
    strait.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, plural
    Koreans, compatriots, streets.
  • Proper noun, singular
    gorges.
  • Noun, plural
    brethren, Adversities, Difficulties, Emergencies, ties, Complexities, Countrymen, Crises, handicaps, challenges, comrades, positions, situations, passes, complications, troubles, restrictions, problems, pitfalls, bottlenecks, remarks, snags, shores, constraints, restraints, occurrences, oceans, sounds, sides, predicaments, setbacks, dilemmas, plights, WOES, hardships, patriots, compatriots, streets.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    cross-strait.

Homophones for Straits:

• southwards, stewardess, strategic, sidewards, stretchy, straights, sideritis, stretch, starets, strategics, stratus, streetwise, strategy.

Hyponym for Straits:

• n.

  • event
    occasion, juncture.
  • state
    situation.