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snake pit

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A place of disorder and chaos.
  • noun A mental health facility.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any place of pain and turmoil
  • noun pejorative terms for an insane asylum

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synonyms (21)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Chinese puzzle
  2. Gordian knot
  3. Rube Goldberg contraption
  4. can of worms
  5. complex
  6. jungle
  7. knot
  8. labyrinth
  9. maze
  10. meander
  11. mesh
  12. mess
  13. perplex
  14. ravel
  15. snafu
  16. snarl
  17. tangle
  18. tangled skein
  19. webwork
  20. wheels within wheels
  21. wilderness

hypernyms (9)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. asylum
  2. insane asylum
  3. institution
  4. mental home
  5. mental hospital
  6. mental institution
  7. part
  8. psychiatric hospital
  9. region

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