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tinderbox

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of tinderbox

1 a potentially explosive place or situation

  • officials sought to calm the situation, which had grown into a tinderbox
Synonyms of tinderbox

flash point, powder keg, time bomb, volcano
Words Related to tinderbox

hot button, third rail

2 a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action

  • while the country's prime minister was meeting with the U.S president, a political tinderbox was igniting at home
Synonyms of tinderbox

boiling point, breaking point, clutch, conjuncture, crisis, crossroad(s), crunch, crunch time, Dunkirk, emergency, exigency, extremity, flash point, head, juncture, zero hour
Words Related to tinderbox

contingency, possibility

climax, turning point

happening, landmark, milestone

condition, pass, situation, strait

deadlock, impasse, stalemate

corner, fix, hole, hot water, jam, last ditch, pinch, predicament, scrape, spot

eleventh hour, last minute
Phrases Synonymous with tinderbox

moment of truth, point of no return

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