morass
noun
[ məˈras ]
• an area of muddy or boggy ground.
• "in midwinter the track beneath this bridge became a muddy morass"
Similar:
quagmire,
swamp,
bog,
marsh,
mire,
quag,
marshland,
peat bog,
fen,
slough,
quicksand,
moss,
carr,
corcass,
bayou,
pocosin,
moor,
marish,
• a complicated or confused situation.
• "she would become lost in a morass of lies and explanations"
Similar:
confusion,
chaos,
muddle,
tangle,
entanglement,
imbroglio,
mix-up,
jumble,
clutter,
mire,
quagmire,
comess,
Origin:
late 15th century: from Dutch moeras, alteration (by assimilation to moer ‘moor’) of Middle Dutch marasch, from Old French marais ‘marsh’, from medieval Latin mariscus .
