morass.

1. An area of soft, wet, boggy ground.

2. A complicated, confusing situation from which it is hard to make progress.

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Words that belong together

• boggy morass
• cross a morass

On the page

The path ended in a morass.

They skirted the wet morass.

Water pooled across the morass.

Usage notes

Primary category: environment. Forms: Singular morass; plural morasses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.