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

National Treasure 3 has been long discussed but remained in development hell for almost two full decades.

— Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Aug. 2026
For six years and five seasons, Netflix’s treasure-hunting drama Outer Banks has put its North Carolina teens through absolute hell just to keep viewers hooked.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of hell

Noun

His worldview has brought nothing but havoc to Americans, whereas Parton provided a guidebook for a national redemption.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
After a stop in the NFL, former Mississippi tight end Dae’Quan Wright could be heading to LSU thanks to a court order that is creating havoc throughout college sports by allowing Wright and others an unexpected fifth year of eligibility.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of havoc

Noun

The defense was organized and rebounded well from some early breakdowns on stretch running plays, and Petrino’s offense doesn’t look like the mess Freddie Kitchens’ group was last year.

— Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
In another drawing, a Cubist mess of igloos and sandcastles lay in a heap.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of mess

Noun

Roughly two dozen other people, including several children, were struck by gunfire and dozens more were injured in the chaos.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026
What was new was someone finally organizing it into something a nurse could use in sixty seconds in the chaos of a delivery room.

— Stacy L. Hambleton, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of chaos

Noun

The company, which offers credit cards used to make rent and mortgage payments, had fumbled a critical transition, leading to confusion and financial stress for its customers.

— Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 31 Aug. 2026
Aggregators typically disclose this information in their search filters, and knowing it in advance avoids confusion on arrival.

— Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of confusion

Noun

Aaronson pointed to the second law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy, a measure of disorder, tends to increase over time.

— Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026
Buprenorphine, semisynthetic opioid medication used primarily to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) and to manage severe chronic pain.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026

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