morass

morass
    n 1: a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
         [syn: {mire}, {quagmire}, {quag}, {morass}, {slack}]
    

Morass \Mo*rass"\, n. [OE. marras, mareis (perh. through D.
   moeras), fr. F. marais, prob. from L. mare sea, in LL., any
   body of water; but perh. influenced by some German word. See
   {Mere} a lake, and cf. {Marsh}.]
   A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Morass ore}. (Min.) See {Bog ore}, under {Bog}.
      [1913 Webster]
    

98 Moby Thesaurus words for "morass":
      anarchy, baygall, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms,
      buffalo wallow, chaos, clutch, complication, confusion, crunch,
      dunghill, embarrassing position, embarrassment, entanglement,
      everglade, fabulous formless darkness, fen, fenland,
      fine how-do-you-do, foul-up, glade, hassle, hell to pay, hobble,
      hog wallow, holm, hot water, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, jam, jungle,
      knot, labyrinth, license, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow,
      mere, mesh, mess, mire, misrule, mix, mix-up, moor, moorland, moss,
      mud, mud flat, muddle, parlous straits, pass, peat bog, pickle,
      pinch, plight, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle,
      pretty predicament, quag, quagmire, quicksand, salt marsh, scrape,
      screw-up, skein, slob land, slough, snafu, snarl, sough, spot,
      squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straits, sump, swale, swamp,
      swampland, taiga, tangle, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope,
      tricky spot, unholy mess, view, wallow, wash, web