quagmire

The word “quagmire” has 2 syllables: quag-mire

It's pronounced as /ˈkwæɡˌmaɪər/


What is synonym and antonym for quagmire?

In the thesaurus, “quagmire” has 67 synonyms and 13 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for quagmire along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for quagmire

Antonyms for quagmire

  • advantage
  • agreement
  • benefit
  • blessing
  • boon
  • closure
  • contentment
  • ease
  • good fortune
  • peace
  • pleasure
  • solution
  • success

Meanings of quagmire

  • noun
    1. A swampy, soggy area of ground.
    2. A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament.
  • verb
    1. To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty.

Example Sentences

  • After heavy rain, the once solid path turned into a treacherous quagmire.
  • The political scandal plunged the nation into a moral quagmire.
  • Navigating through the dense forest, the hikers found themselves stuck in a muddy quagmire.
  • The negotiations between the two countries reached a diplomatic quagmire.
  • The financial crisis created an economic quagmire that took years to recover from.

On this page you'll find 80 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to quagmire, such as: advantage, agreement, benefit, bind, blessing, boon, box.

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Related Words

dead end

  • Catch-22
  • Mexican standoff
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dead ends

  • Mexican standoffs
  • abates
  • alleys
  • alleyways
  • arterials
  • arteries
  • avenues
  • backstreets
  • binds
  • bites the dust
  • bottlenecks
  • boulevards
  • branches
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  • bystreets
  • byways
  • carriageways
  • causeways
  • ceases
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  • determines
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  • expressways
  • finishes
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  • freeways
  • gives over
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  • knocks off
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  • lapses
  • leaves off
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  • logjams
  • mews
  • morasses
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  • stalemates
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  • thoroughfares
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  • traces
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  • trails
  • turnpikes
  • ways
  • winds down
  • winds up

deadlock

  • Catch-22
  • Mexican standoff
  • bind
  • bottleneck
  • box
  • cessation
  • checkmate
  • corner
  • dead end
  • dead heat
  • difficulty
  • dilemma
  • draw
  • fix
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  • gridlock
  • halt
  • hole
  • impasse
  • jam
  • logjam
  • morass
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  • posture
  • predicament
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  • quandary
  • spot
  • stalemate
  • standoff
  • standstill
  • tie
  • wall

deadlocks

halt

  • Mexican standoff
  • abate
  • abeyance
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  • adjourn
  • ailing
  • annul
  • arrest
  • arrestment
  • back down
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  • bind
  • bite the dust
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  • blow the whistle on
  • blunder
  • bottleneck
  • brake
  • break
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  • breakoff
  • bring to an end
  • bring to standstill
  • bring up
  • call
  • call it a day
  • can
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  • cease
  • cessation
  • challenged
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  • clamp down
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  • come to an end
  • complete
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  • conclusion
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  • dead end
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  • deadlock
  • deaf
  • debate
  • delay
  • deliberate
  • demolish
  • desist
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  • discontinuance
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  • draw up
  • drop
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  • exceptional
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  • falter
  • fetch up
  • finish
  • fix
  • flounder
  • freeze
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  • gridlock
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  • hamper
  • hang back
  • hard of hearing
  • have done with
  • haw
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  • hesitate
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  • hold
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  • incapacitated
  • intermit
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  • kill
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  • lay off
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  • logjam
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  • morass
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  • mute
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  • pickle
  • pinch
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  • pussyfoot
  • put a cork in
  • put the kibosh on
  • quadriplegic
  • quagmire
  • quandary
  • quit
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  • rest
  • ruin
  • screaming halt
  • screeching halt
  • scruple
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  • sick
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  • special-needs
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  • stalemate
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