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. Rafik Hariri:

   I can't hide this from you. I have reached a dead end.

2. Steve Harvey:

   I live on a dead-end street — and The TV host got real when things started coming over the gate. Empty boxes with bows and pictures of bombs.

3. Nathalie Loiseau:

   Britain is at a dead end, europeans have other priorities than having to wait until the U.K. takes a decision.

4. Xu Xing:

   It's a failed experiment, it's an evolutionary dead end, over the last 30 years, there were so many discoveries made that demonstrate birds are really descendants of dinosaurs.

5. Vladimir Putin:

   Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.