maze

Main Entry:
tangle [tang-guhl]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: knot, confusion
Synonyms: coil, complication, entanglement, jam, jungle, labyrinth, mass, mat, maze, mesh, mess, mix-up, morass, muddle, rummage, skein, snag, snarl, twist, web
Antonyms: line, order, peace
Main Entry: mystification
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: daze
Synonyms: befuddlement, bewilderedness, bewilderment, discombobulation, distraction, fog*, gauze, glaze, haze, lala-land, maze, muddle, muddledness, nadaville, narcosis, perplexity, puzzlement, shock, stupefaction, stupor, trance
Main Entry: perplexity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: daze
Synonyms: befuddlement, bewilderedness, bewilderment, discombobulation, distraction, fog*, gauze, glaze, haze, lala-land, maze, muddle, muddledness, mystification, nadaville, narcosis, puzzlement, shock, stupefaction, stupor, trance
Main Entry: puzzlement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: daze
Synonyms: befuddlement, bewilderedness, bewilderment, discombobulation, distraction, fog*, gauze, glaze, haze, lala-land, maze, muddle, muddledness, mystification, nadaville, narcosis, perplexity, shock, stupefaction, stupor, trance
Main Entry: skein
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: tangle
Synonyms: cat's cradle, coil, complication, entanglement, jam*, jungle*, knot, labyrinth, mass, mat, maze, mesh, mess*, mix-up, morass, muddle, rummage, snag, snarl, strand, thread, twist, web
Notes: a group of geese is a gaggle, but only when they are on the ground; in the air, the group is a skein
Main Entry: vertiginousness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dizziness
Synonyms: befuddlement, bewilderment, distraction, gauze, giddiness, glaze, haze, lala-land, lightheadedness, maze, muddledness, nadaville, narcosis, shock, stupefaction, stupor, trance, vertigo, wooziness
Related Words
Main Entry: difficulty
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
accomplished with difficulty, aerumnous, aground, arduous, at a loss, at a nonplus, at a standstill, at bay, at cross, at the end of one's tether, awkward, beset with difficulties, between Scylla and Charybdis, between two stools, complicated, crabbed, critical, delicate, desperate, difficult, difficult to deal with, driven from post to pillar, driven into a corner, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall, embarrassing, encompassed with difficulties, entangled by difficulties, farpotshket, fashious, feisty, formidable, full of difficulties, graveled, hard, hard, hard, hard put to it, hard to deal with, hard up, herculean, ill, impracticable, in a clever stick, in a fine pickle, in a fix, in a scrape, in deep water, in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in the wrong box, intractable, intricate, invious, irksome, knotted, laborious, labyrinthine, more easily said than done, nonplussed, not easy, not feasible, not made with rose, not to be handled with kid gloves, onerous, operose, out of one's depth, pathless, perplexing, perverse, pinched, plaguy, plexiform, put to it, put to one's shifts, puzzled, quisquous, reduced to straits, refractory, rugged, run hard, set fast, sooner said than done, sorely pressed, straitened, stranded, stubborn, stuck fast, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by difficulties, surrounded by quicksands, surrounded by shoals, thorny, thrown out, ticklish, toilsome, tough, trackless, troublesome, trying, under a difficulty, unmanageable, unwieldy, up a tree
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Difficulty.
Category: 1. Conditional antagonism
Synonyms:
-nouns
difficulty; hardness; impracticability (impossibility); tough work, hard work, uphill work; hard task, Herculean task, Augean task; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor, tough job, teaser, rasper, dead lift., dilemma, embarrassment; deadlock; perplexity (uncertainty); intricacy; entanglement; cross fire; awkwardness, delicacy, ticklish card to play, knot, Gordian knot, dignus vindice nodus, net, meshes, maze; coil (convolution); crooked path; involvement., nice point, delicate point, subtle point, knotty point; vexed question, vexata quaestio, poser; puzzle (riddle); paradox; hard nut to crack, nut to crack; bone to pick, crux, pons asinorum, where the shoe pinches., nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt; critical situation, crisis; trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble., scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado; false position., set fast, stand; deadlock, dead set., fix, horns of a dilemma, cul de sac; hitch; stumblng block (hindrance).
-verbs
be difficult; run one hard, go against the grain, try one's patience, put one out; put to one's shifts, put to one's wit's end; go hard with one, try one; pose, perplex (uncertain); bother, nonplus, gravel, bring to a deadlock; be impossible; be in the way of (hinder)., meet with difficulties; labor under difficulties; get into difficulties; plunge into difficulties; struggle with difficulties; contend with difficulties; grapple with difficulties; labor under a disadvantage; be in difficulty, fish in troubled waters, buffet the waves, swim against the stream, scud under bare poles., have much ado with, have a hard time of it; come to the push, come to the pinch; bear the brunt., grope in the dark, lose one's way, weave a tangled web, walk among eggs., get into a scrape; bring a hornet's nest about one's ears; be put to one's shifts; flounder, boggle, struggle; not know which way to turn (uncertain); perdre son Latin; stick at, stick in the mud, stick fast; come to a stand, come to a deadlock; hold the wolf by the ears., render difficult; enmesh, encumber, embarrass, ravel, entangle; put a spoke in the wheel (hinder); lead a pretty dance.
-adjectives
difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; more easily said than done., difficult to deal with, hard to deal with; ill-conditioned, crabbed; not to be handled with kid gloves, not made with rose water., awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable; intractable, stubborn (obstinate); perverse, refractory, plaguy, trying, thorny, rugged; knotted, knotty; invious; pathless, trackless; labyrinthine (convoluted); intricate, complicated (tangled); impracticable (impossible); not feasible; desperate (hopeless)., embarrassing, perplexing (uncertain); delicate, ticklish, critical; beset with difficulties, full of difficulties, surrounded by difficulties, entangled by difficulties, encompassed with difficulties.
-adverbs
with difficulty, with much ado; hardly; uphill; against the stream, against the grain; a rebours; invita Minerva; in the teeth of; at a pinch, upon a pinch; at long odds.
-phrases
"ay there's the rub" [Hamlet]; hic labor hoc opus [Vergil]; things are come to a pretty pass, ab inconvenienti; ad astra per aspera; acun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a
Antonyms: facility
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