Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An area of low-lying, soggy ground.
- n. Something that hinders, engulfs, or overwhelms: a morass of details.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A tract of low, soft, wet ground the drainage of which is insufficient either from its depressed situation or from its uniform flatness; a marsh; a swamp; a bog; a fen.
- n. Synonyms Swamp, etc. See marsh.
Wiktionary
- n. A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
- n. Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
Etymologies
- Dutch moeras, from Middle Dutch maras, from Old French mareis, probably of Germanic origin; see mori- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“One of the suggestions being made as a way out of this Florida/Michigan morass is simply to seat the delegates based on the actual vote.”
Who Didn’t Vote in the Florida and Michigan Democratic Primaries? - Swampland - TIME.com
“Today, it seems all too possible that the region's coddled political and economic elites will allow their states to slide into a Latin American morass, as they continue to live high on the hog while the dreams of ordinary people go down the tubes.”
“Maybe the best way out of the morass is to think of constructions like "better than her" as forgivable lapses — like "It's me.”
“He found that old Ralph regarded the Dismal Swamp, as they called the morass, as utterly uninhabitable and impassable; he had never heard any sounds of life from within; he thought the place haunted; it abounded in quagmires, and corpse lights and baleful fires were seen on its waters at night.”
The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune
“A while back Glaser said not all device makers are adopting Real’s Helix architecture and that, “A balkanization morass is growing”.”
“Worst, you might get it home and find out that you didn't really have a decent idea to go with the image, and end up slogging your way through some 12,000 word morass which Pabst would choke on.”
“I think of the first few days of whatever we're calling this, the morass, which is an opportunity to learn things.”
“In a deep hole near the edge of the morass was a huge Hereford bull.”
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies
“How they were to recross the morass was a matter of little concern to him as yet -- it would be time enough to consider that matter when it became of more immediate moment.”
“It is surrounded by a morass, which is thickly covered with canes and papyrus reeds, which are impenetrable.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘morass’.
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Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
throng, morass, parley, facile, kismet, strife, jetsam, carrion, annex, harbinger, vestige, surreptitious and 575 more...
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Water always flows downhill
The path of least resistance, watercourses, plumbing....
swale, hollow, creek, crick, depression, holler, draw, ditch, corrie, cwm, continental divide, stream and 89 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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baffle, farrago, confound, befuddle, daze, disorient, discombobulate, stupefy, perplex, mystify, bewilder, boggle and 134 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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Talking About Words
The favorite words of Talking Tyrants
dolorous, parsimonious, apotemnophilia, odalisque, tuberoinfundibular, morass, ostentatious, sybaritic, vermilion, onomatopoeia, eschatology, teleology and 49 more...
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Ruzuzu's Big Ass List
If you're looking for long s examples, see here.
ass, assess, asshole, basso profondo, basso profundo, crass, assay, mr. ass itch, compass, slag-ass macaroon, brass, class and 41 more...
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try to use now and then
exacerbate, inveterate, obviate, verbose, exasperate, disingenuous, squit, ingenue, Opiate, opioid, revile, decrepit and 14 more...
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aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1896 more...
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Words like morass
morass, parsimonious, moribund, susurrus, fuliginous, stalwart, deluge, furlough, timorous, mellifluous, emulsion, agglomerate
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Words from Moby Dick
frigate, presumptuous, genteel, succor, hearthstone, gentry, factitious, bilious, insurgent, portent, enervate, genuflect and 303 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
anacoluthon, defenestration, hypnopomp, hypnagogue, idioglossia, panopticon, tatterdemalion, abalone, caltrop, miasma, paroxysm, smalt and 476 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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ecbrenner's list
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tonya Something that hinders, engulfs, or overwhelms: a morass of detail. Aug 31, 2008