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Definitions for morass
məˈræsmorass

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slacknoun

    a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

Wiktionary

  1. morassnoun

    A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.

  2. morassnoun

    Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. Morassnoun

    a tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen

  2. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of morass in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of morass in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of morass in a Sentence

  1. Jack Ciesielski:

    It's not something that's mainstream, but the situation in Venezuela is really a morass.

  2. Michael McDougall:

    Brazil has gone from a shining vision of sugar and ethanol to a morass of ill-kept cane fields.

  3. Leah Spivey:

    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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