SNAKE PIT Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

snake pit

noun

Definition of snake pit

as in hell

a state in which everything is out of order finally managed to crawl out of the snake pit of her drug addiction

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Recent Examples of snake pit With the Broncos and Jets set to meet Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur, the second of three London games on this season’s schedule, there should be at least a tiny bit of trepidation that someone will slip into the snake pit and become the latest NFL personality to make a forgettable Brexit. — Michael Silver, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025 Inside the museum, visitors can climb into a snake pit, tour a collection of global oddities and attend expert presentations in the building's historic courtroom, per the event website. — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2025 The series, which used to air on Fox and USA before pivoting to Netflix this year, takes four couples on rocky ground, splits them up, and puts them into a snake pit of singles whose only goal is to tempt. — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025 The film is imbued with a satirical tone that portrays Argentinian society as being a snake pit of corruption and violence. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for snake pit

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Noun

Their beef escalated this week when Matthews posted a TikTok seemingly throwing shade at Paul, and all hell broke loose.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
Is the morality fable at the end an allegory of purgatory or hell?

— The Week US, TheWeek, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of hell

Noun

One way to ensure is to prepare for the amount of havoc the Red Wolves will attempt to generate with a creative defensive scheme.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2026
The rain was incessant and the wind was playing havoc on the almost invisible race course.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of havoc

Noun

Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.

— Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.

— Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026

Definition of jumble

Noun

What follows is 90 minutes of comedy, chaos and quick-thinking improvisation while the four sober actors fight to keep the script on track.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
Widow’s Bay may have horror, comedy and plenty of chaos, but Root said the cast approached it all with the same goal.

— Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of chaos

Noun

Trump announced his ban in a post Friday, causing some confusion in the White House as crews from the outelts remained onsite.

— Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
This confusion of terms, says Breau, is in part because of the way American law looks at psychedelics and religion.

— Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of confusion

Noun

Kyl died Wednesday night from a neurological disorder, said Gordon James, a communications professional who is a longtime friend of the Kyl family.

— JACQUES BILLEAUD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
Ning Xu of Tsinghua University in Beijing beat out 346 other video entries from 40 different countries with his super-resolution video (above) of the abnormal beating of cilia in the airways of a child with a rare genetic respiratory disorder.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of disorder

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