Thesaurus
corner
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of CORNER
1
a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape <the writers have gotten themselves into a corner on that TV show>
2
a place where roads meet <we'll meet at the corner tomorrow>
Related Words cloverleaf, interchange, overpass, underpass; circle, rotary, roundabout [British], traffic circle
3
a point in a chain of events at which an important change (as in one's fortunes) occurs <the president believes that we have turned a corner in the war on drugs>
Related Words break, capper, clincher, crusher, highlight, topper; conversion, metamorphosis, transfiguration, transformation, turnabout, turnaround; boiling point, breaking point, clutch, conjuncture, crisis, crossroad(s), crunch, crunch time, Dunkirk, emergency, exigency, extremity, flash point, head, juncture, zero hour
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