morass
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9.3
- noun
- /məˈræs/
:
embrollo
- The environmental report revealed a morass of regulations that made compliance almost impossible for small businesses.
- escape from the morass
- morass of conflicting
It's more of I just see this morass that's holding you all back from doing things.
- It's more of I just see this morass that's holding you all back from doing things.
- And there's a risk for those from narcissistic families that they can live in this morass of regret for a very long time.
- No, we say that when things have turned into this morass of competing interests, and whoever wins may not be the person who deserves to win.
- And your immune system has to look at this morass of, you know, a gazillion different organisms and figure out what's friend and what's foe.
- This is what is going to lead me out of the, you know, morass of my mind when you were still in that you kind of young state.
- Can you imagine what a morass that has been and his fortitude to even take it on, never mind actually understand it?
- And it's easy to fall into the morass of all sphere and love because the entire thing feels like a massive roller coaster.
- So that means that we are a sort of genetic morass in our mitochondrial genomes of some good genomes, some pretty bad, you know, some mistakes.
Examples
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After failing to meet the deadline, the project quickly descended into a morass of delays and misunderstandings.
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Small banks face a morass of new rules and compliance burdens.
Academic text (2018) -
And so how do you cut through that morass and get the truth out?
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Yet, believe it or not, this morass of our economy is going to work.
Blog text (32) -
The patient is a tiny little part of the confusing morass of a care delivery experience.
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How did we arrive at this morass of confusion?
Academic text (1996) -
The field of gifted education thus finds itself in a morass of confusion.
Academic text (1996) -
In short, Marcos's much heralded "New Society" became an economic, social, and political morass.
Academic text (1990) -
Houston needs to crawl out of the fiscal and moral morass into which it has sunk.
Blog text (2) -
I feel like I've been extricated from the morass of politicized media hype.
Blog text (8)
Synonyms
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1.0
A situation in which things are untidy and confused
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5.8
A difficult or embarrassing situation that is hard to escape
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7.9
A difficult situation that is hard to escape or solve
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7.0
A difficult, confusing situation that is hard to get out of
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5.0
A confused, disorganized situation where things are not in order
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8.1
A difficult situation that is hard to escape
A difficult, confusing situation that is full of dishonest people and hard to escape
Not able to move forward because of a messy, difficult situation
Antonyms
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Etymology
Morass first meant a marsh that could hold you like quick mud, so people began using it for problems that trap you in the same way. So a bureaucratic or legal morass is a confusing, sticky situation that is hard to get out of.