Vocabulary
Morass
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
something that is extremely complicated and difficult to deal with and makes any progress almost impossible
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- In Pakistan, death is made more traumatic by the morass of hospital procedures, bureaucracy, financial demands and medical decisions at the crisis hour.
- Is it still possible to change course and see a good way out of the morass we are currently enmeshed in?
- The challenges are too serious for a government lacking public mandate to deal with, and take the country out of, the morass.
- The sooner the country goes to the polls, the greater the chance for it to find a way out of the present political and economic morass and address the multiple crises roiling Pakistan.
Antonyms
order, organization
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