morass

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of MORASS

something that catches and holds <advised against becoming involved in that country's civil war, warning that escape from that morass might prove nigh impossible>

Synonyms entanglement, mesh(es), morass, net, noose, quagmire, quicksand, snare, tanglement, toil(s), trap

Related Words knot, snarl, tangle; cat's cradle, labyrinth, maze; cobweb, spiderweb

spongy land saturated or partially covered with water <the distracted driver had driven his car off the road and into a morass>

Synonyms bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, muskeg, slough (also slew or slue), swampland, wash, wetland

Related Words swale; quagmire; guck (or gook), muck, mud, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush

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