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quagmire

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of quagmire

1 a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape

the party was once again facing its quadrennial quagmire: the candidate sufficiently liberal to win the nomination would be too liberal for the general election

Synonyms of quagmire

bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], jam, mire, pickle, predicament, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp

Words Related to quagmire

difficulty, node

hot water, soup

pinch, plight, quandary, scrape, trouble

deadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstill

clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait

Phrases Synonymous with quagmire

2 something that catches and holds

a protracted custody dispute that became a judicial quagmire

Synonyms of quagmire

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

Words Related to quagmire

knot, snarl, tangle

cat's cradle, labyrinth, maze

cobweb, spiderweb

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