Synonyms for bog
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Swamp — an area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for…
swamp, marsh, moor, fen, slough, water meadow, flood meadow, lowland, wash, callow, marshland
2. Quagmire — confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas
Definitions
- n. 1
An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
Near-synonyms: fen, slough, moor
- n. 2
Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
Related words
- Word family
- bogger boggo boggy bogland boglander bog-standard bogtrotter boggish
- Phrases
- bog myrtle bog down bog roll bog gas bog moss peat bog bog arum bog beacon
Forms
- Plural
- bogs → swamps, marshes, moors, fens…
Example sentences
- marsh Sami wanted to dump Layla's body in the marsh.
- swamp The mango tree at the taro swamp is full of fruit.
- moor Go back, and never set foot upon the moor again.
- fen FEN does not carry domestic news.
- quagmire The rain turned the road into a quagmire.
- morass The morass of regulations is delaying the project.
By length
- 3 letters
- bug1, fen1
- 4 letters
- wash1, moor1, mire1, quag
- 5 letters
- marsh1, swamp1, privy2, jakes1
- 6 letters
- toilet2, slough1, callow2, morass2, syrtis
- 7 letters
- lowland2
- 8 letters
- quagmire3, peatland
- 9 letters
- marshland2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (privy2 = 2 syllables).