crux
noun
1 Crux
A small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus.
synonyms: Crux Australis, Southern Cross.
Dutch: Zuiderkruis, zuiderkruis
2 crux
The most important point.
synonym: crux of the matter.
Roget 153:
cause,
origin,
source,
principle,
element;
occasioner†,
prime mover,
primum mobile [Lat.];
vera causa [Lat.];
author
etc.
(producer)
164;
mainspring;
agent;
leaven;
groundwork,
foundation
etc.
(support)
215.
spring,
fountain,
well,
font;
fountainhead,
spring head,
wellhead;
fons et origo [Lat.],
genesis;
descent
etc.
(paternity)
166;
remote cause;
influence.
pivot,
hinge,
turning point,
lever,
crux,
fulcrum;
key;
proximate cause,
causa causans [Lat.];
straw that breaks the camel's back.
ground;
reason,
reason why;
why and wherefore,
rationale,
occasion,
derivation;
final cause
etc.
(intention)
620;
les dessous des cartes [Fr.];
undercurrents.
rudiment.
egg,
germ,
embryo,
bud,
root,
radix radical,
etymon,
nucleus,
seed,
stem,
stock,
stirps,
trunk,
tap-root,
gemmule†,
radicle,
semen,
sperm.
nest,
cradle,
nursery,
womb,
nidus,
birthplace,
hotbed.
causality,
causation;
origination;
production
etc.
161.
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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.
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Dutch: kruispunt
Moby thesaurus: Calvary cross, Chinese puzzle, Christogram, Gordian knot, Greek cross, Jerusalem cross, Latin cross, Maltese cross, Russian cross, T, X, ankh, avellan cross, baffling problem, bench mark, brain twister, cardinal point, catch, chi, chi-rho, chief thing, christcross, climax, core, cornerstone, crisis, crisscross, critical point, cross, cross ancre, cross botonee, cross bourdonee, cross fitche, cross fleury, cross formee, cross fourchee, cross grignolee, cross moline, cross of Cleves, cross of Lorraine, cross patee, cross recercelee, cross-crosslet, crossbones, crosslet, crossword puzzle, crucifix, cruciform, crux ansata, crux capitata, crux decussata, crux gammata, crux immissa, crux ordinaria, dagger, dilemma, enigma, enigmatic question, essence, essential, essential matter, ex, exing, floorer, fork cross, fundamental, gammadion, gist, gravamen, great point, heart, high point, hitch, important thing, inverted cross, issue, jigsaw puzzle, joker, kernel, keystone, knot, knotty point, landmark, long cross, main point, main thing, material point, matter, meat, milestone, mind-boggler, mystery, node, nodus, nonplus, nub, nut to crack, oxymoron, papal cross, paradox, pectoral cross, perplexed question, perplexity, pinch, pith, pivot, pons asinorum, poser, potent cross, problem, purport, puzzle, puzzlement, puzzler, quandary, question, question mark, real issue, rood, rub, salient point, saltire, sine qua non, sixty-four dollar question, snag, sticker, stumper, substance, substantive point, swastika, tau, teaser, the bottom line, the point, thrust, tough proposition, trefled cross, turning point, vexed question, voided cross, why ... show more.
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