What does morass mean?
Definitions for morass
məˈræsmorass
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Princeton's WordNet
mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slacknoun
a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
Wiktionary
morassnoun
A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
morassnoun
Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Morassnoun
Fen; bog; moor.
Etymology: marais, French.
Landscapes point out the fairest and most fruitful spots, as well as the rocks, and wildernesses, and morasses of the country. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.
Nor the deep morass
Refuse, but through the shaking wilderness
Pick your nice way. James Thomson, Autumn, l. 480.
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morass
A morass refers to a complicated or confused situation that is difficult to get out of or overcome. It can also refer to an area of low-lying, soggy, marshy ground.
Webster Dictionary
Morassnoun
a tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen
Etymology: [OE. marras, mareis (perh. through D. moeras), fr. F. marais, prob. from L. mare sea, in LL., any body of water; but perh. influenced by some German word. See Mere a lake, and cf. Marsh.]
Wikidata
Morass
In axiomatic set theory, a mathematical discipline, a morass is an infinite combinatorial structure, used to create "large" structures from a "small" number of "small" approximations. They were invented by Ronald Jensen in his proof that cardinal transfer theorems hold under the axiom of constructibility.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Morass
mo-ras′, n. a tract of soft, wet ground: a marsh.—adj. Morass′y.—Morass ore, bog-iron ore. [Dut. moeras, a marsh.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
morass
Nearly the same thing as a marsh or swamp. In tropical regions they are often overflowed with salt water, yet covered with mangrove and many aquatic plants.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of morass in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of morass in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of morass in a Sentence
It's not something that's mainstream, but the situation in Venezuela is really a morass.
Brazil has gone from a shining vision of sugar and ethanol to a morass of ill-kept cane fields.
This is a case where you have an employer who has expended a lot of effort recruiting someone and they’ve been caught up in this morass, this mess of bureaucracy.
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- pantanoSpanish
- باتلاقPersian
- suo, hetteikköFinnish
- boglachScottish Gaelic
- palūsLatin
- pântanoPortuguese
- mlaștinăRomanian
- болото, трясинаRussian
- morasSwedish
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