Vocabulary
Limbo
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
an uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress or improvement
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Many have, instead, found themselves in limbo for years, stranded by slow bureaucracies, shifting immigration policies and waning political will in host countries.
- Yet the country is still stuck in a dangerous limbo.
- Two seemingly unrelated events going viral on social media offer an opportunity to think through why and where are, ie, in limbo.
- The problems of success are more pronounced for societies in transition, as the limbo can seem to last forever.
- Unless we agree that cleaning toilets is honourable and it is the breach of contracts, social or divine, that is despicable, limbo will only end in hell.
Synonyms
oblivion, nothingness
Antonyms
certainty, certitude
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