Synonyms for dead-end
dead-end

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1. cul, cul de sac, dead endnoun

   a passage with access only at one end

   Synonyms:
   dead-end street, cul, cul de sac, deadlock, stalemate, blind alley, dead end, standstill, impasse

   Antonyms:
   active

2. deadlock, dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstilladjective

   a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible

   "reached an impasse on the negotiations"

   Synonyms:
   standstill, cul, dead-end street, cul de sac, stand, deadlock, stalemate, blind alley, dead end, tie-up, impasse

   Antonyms:
   active

3. dead-endadjective

   lacking opportunities for development or advancement

   "stuck in a dead-end job"

   Antonyms:
   active

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1. List of paraphrases for "dead-end":

   cul-de-sac, impasse, deadlock, stalemate

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How to use dead-end in a sentence?

1. Denis Watley:

   Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

2. Jody Culham:

   She is missing a piece of brain tissue about the size of an apple at the back of her brain – almost her entire occipital lobes, which process vision, we think the ‘super-highway’ for the visual system reached a dead end. But rather than shutting down her whole visual system, she developed some ‘back roads’ that could bypass the superhighway to bring some vision – especially motion – to other parts of the brain.

3. Ayman Odeh:

   We want this government which led all of us, Jews and Arabs, to a dead end, not to continue, but we are not in Herzog's pocket.

4. Jennifer McQuiston:

   They had tested several hundred specimens and it looked like it was coming to a dead end.

5. The KNU:

   We have long foreseen a military offensive at the end of the dead-end NCA peace process.